Chapter 168: Rounding to Zero
"As long as the head is not taken prisoner?" Higg smiled and said to Simak, "You have made yourself a great enemy!" Now what? The casualties have exceeded 10,000, the recovery of the wounded soldiers is slow, and you have no soldiers to replenish here, so you will be eaten sooner or later! ”
"I want a truce, but no one wants to!" Simak said helplessly, "Hehe, but if you want to eat my tens of thousands of people, there is no two or three times the price, they don't think about it!" I'll spend another year and a half on them, anyway, their casualties are greater than mine, and the material consumption is several times that of mine, even if I die here, it's worth it! ”
Higg is also helpless, this is an unsolvable situation, the initiative is not on his side, Curdes bites you to death, this is people's tactics, crowd tactics, no matter how much the cost is to abolish the number of the Guards Battalion of the Fifth Legion, just to retaliate against you. It's winter now, and the snow is covering the mountains, and it's impossible to cross the Xinze Mountains to the Luojia River Plain, so you can only carry it!
Higg looked at the high mountains and dense forests of the Pamela Mountains, even in winter, under the snow, there was still danger, and fighting could break out everywhere. There are countless battles every day, large and small, a stronghold or a ravine, and sometimes the flag is changed several times a day. In the face of the encroachment of the Cordes crowd tactics, SMS's territory has shrunk again and again. The two sides not only competed on the frontal battlefield, but also fought for stalemate everywhere at key strongholds.
"General Higg, you can't support me now!" Simak said helplessly, "The Xinze Mountains in winter can't be crossed, spring and early summer are the seasons of snow, and they can't be crossed, if you want to reinforce me, you can only break in from the front of the mountain pass, but with the strength of the Luojia River Plain, you can't do it yet." Don't worry, general, I'll hold out until the time when the general counterattacks! ”
"Why do you have to climb over the Nisawa Mountains?" Higg said, "Isn't there still a lot of territory in the Pamela Mountains on your right? ”
"It's all high mountains and dense forests, and there's no place for the army to settle down!" "Besides, it will be difficult to recapture the best passage over the New Jersey Mountains to the Curders, and it will be even more difficult for us to contact the Lojia River Plain!" ”
"It's just right that the army can't settle down!" "Your army can't settle down, and neither can the army of Curders. You break up your army into pieces, so you can be flexible. If Curdes dares to send a small army to search the mountains, then you can destroy them one by one? If they don't go into the mountains and block you on the perimeter, you can also use small armies to find their weak spots. The Chinese Guards Battalion was the most elite unit of the Fifth Army Corps, and it was the best at formulating this flexible and mobile tactic. Curdes's army of more than 100,000 is dragged by you like this, and he wants to fight you in a decisive battle, you hide, and if he wants to retreat, you will attack in small groups. Isn't he cannibalizing you now? When the time comes, you will in turn nibble at him! ”
"Wouldn't that be too risky?" SMS said, "Breaking up the whole into parts and dividing the troops to attack and harass requires accurate intelligence support. The opponent has griffins, we don't, our intelligence is far behind the opponent, and when we enter the mountains, we are equivalent to having no eyes! The connection between the teams, the enemy's intelligence, all need to be supported by fast control! ”
"When I was the second leader of the bandits in Fuxing City, I created a wolf smoke system that could quickly transmit information. We can build on this system and improve it according to the specific situation! Higg said, "Three days later, began to transfer supplies to the mountains and hidden, let each commander send ten soldiers to learn the wolf smoke system, and after the study is completed, teach it to his own department, and strive for everyone to understand the information of the wolf smoke, in addition, all the generals, commanders, thousands, centurions, and centurions of the commanders will come here in batches to learn and communicate, and see what kind of combat method is most suitable after entering the mountains!" A month later, we broke into pieces and retreated into the mountains! ”
"Ray and I are in charge of drawing a topographic map of the area behind the mountains!" Lan Xian'er smiled, "Ten days later, I promise to hand over the accurate map to you!" ”
"General Simak, my wife and I will wait until you are fully established before leaving, don't worry!" Higg said.
Simak was overjoyed and said, "With General Higg and his wife making overall arrangements, if I still have anything to worry about, I will secretly inform the whole army!" ”
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On the fourth day, the troops of the material logistics began to transfer supplies in small units to the back mountains. And Higg also started his own military training in the base camp, during the day is to train more than 300 communication soldiers in the systematic wolf smoke system, this system has been relatively perfect in the Gaodel hilly area, but in order to prevent the enemy from easily cracking this system, Higg added the time element, dividing the time by week, and the system used each week corresponds to the system. This greatly increases the learner's understanding and mastery, they must not only master how to understand these wolf smoke signals, but also know how to build and improve the wolf smoke platform, how to burn different colors of wolf smoke, and how to deal with the enemy attack on the wolf smoke platform.
In the evening, the officers had no ready-made experience in studying and exchanging techniques and tactics in the mountains, so they could only rely on the joint discussion and study of the troops, and the general principle was to create trouble for the opponent to the greatest extent possible on the premise of preserving their own vital forces. The marching routes, how to distribute the various armies, how to distribute materials, how to connect, how to coordinate attacks and defenses, how to solve emergencies caused by various natural conditions and human factors, and so on, have all been thoroughly discussed and studied.
When Blue Fairy laid out a huge map in front of Higg ten days later, Higg was simply taken aback. The map shows mountains, rivers, forests, meadows, and villages, as well as the heights, topographical features, and vegetation of the main peaks, covering an area of nearly 3,000 square kilometers.
"How did you do that?" Higg asked in surprise.
"Divide these places into a hundred zones and draw ten zones a day!" Lan Xian'er smiled and said, "Don't forget, I can use the scroll to absorb the information of the square tower, of course, I can get the information of this area by way!" ”
"Great!" Higg excitedly said, "Just number the districts on the map according to your regional differentiation method!" ”
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A month later, Higg and Simak each led 10,000 men and various surrounding strongholds to launch a fierce attack on the various divisions of Curdes at the same time. Surprised by the Fifth Army's madness, Curdes hurriedly dispatched his troops to defend, and it was not until evening that he stabilized his position, and the Fifth Army slowly stopped attacking.
But Curdes did not know that the evacuated Fifth Army did not return to its base camp, but took advantage of the darkness of night to retreat north into the mountains according to the original plan. The Fifth Legion, equipped with some sleds and skis, retreated quickly, and when Curdz's reconnaissance team found that the Fifth Legion's base camp was empty, Curdes immediately sent the Griffons to scout around. As a result of the reconnaissance, the enemy retreated in several directions, but the enemy was everywhere, regardless of priority.
The occupied Fifth Army's base camp of the Simakik Division immediately sent several teams in tentative pursuit, but they were either ambushed or completely unable to catch up with the enemy.
Curdes proudly enjoyed the pleasure of this victory, and after nearly three months of blockade of the Simak Ministry, he was finally able to stand on the enemy's territory and laugh loudly, "Haha, immediately block all the main exits in this area, I will slowly eat them bite by bite, hahaha!" ”
Curdes had reason to believe that his army of 100,000 had no problem dealing with the 30,000 or 40,000 Fifth Army Guards Battalion of the Chinese Army, which had no logistics or military support, and he would trap these people to death, starve to death, and consume them in this poor mountain and bad water.
The smug Curdes did not know that from now on, his nightmare had begun.
The nightmare began when shortly after his first blockade order was issued, when the troops sent to the various important exits arrived at the designated locations, and the logistics convoys that followed were basically attacked and most of the supplies burned. The most irritating thing is that the number of these sneak attacks is not large, and they do not deliberately snatch supplies, mainly attacking and harassing, fighting if they can, running away if they can't, running into the deep mountains and forests, without a trace.
Pick out the weak defense of the logistics supply troops, and pick out the small units that are left behind, the battle will end quickly, the opponent's reinforcements have just been activated, and the battlefield is already being cleaned up over there. This is the strategy of Higg and Simak, not seeking to destroy many enemies, as long as they can cause trouble to the enemy, they will achieve their goals.
"Rice is eaten bite by bite, hundreds of thousands of troops, wipe out a little bit every day, add up to a lot, and one day they will be wiped out." Higg was very satisfied with the results of the ten days when the Simak division entered the mountains, "We only remember one thing, we have no military supplies, no logistics supplies, and it is different from positional warfare, even if one of us can kill five enemies, we can't do such a deal." ”
"General Higg!" Sima said confidently, "I promise to keep Curdes in this mountain area forever"
Higg said with a smile, "Let's not get complacent too early, although we have achieved some results in the past ten days, but it is because Curdes is not prepared and familiar with our tactics, I believe they will soon react, there will be a series of methods against our tactics, such as sending griffons to attack the wolf smoke platform, or luring us into the trap with supply troops, etc., I can't teach you, you can only learn war in war, constantly update your tactics, and always be one step better than the enemy's tactics, Then we will finally win! No matter what the tactics are, as long as the method can achieve the goal, it is a good method! ”
After a pause, Higg continued: "I will leave here with my wife tomorrow and find you real mountain forest combat experts to help you, it will take at least three months, so you should not think of yourself as a regular army during this time, in fact, you are bandits, robbers, you must be your own mountain king!" ”