Three Kingdoms

  Chapter 1269 The oil seller among the generals

  Most people in later generations of Huaxia can’t understand ancient wars without romance novels such as Romance of the Three Kingdoms and Eastern Zhou Dynasty, and then various film and television dramas, including divine dramas.

  Unfortunately, most of the information is not real, and has been reprocessed artistically.

  China’s history was dominated by literati for most of the time, and since the Han Dynasty, Confucianism has stepped onto the stage. The literati in the early Han Dynasty who allowed Wenwen Yunwu to play their last brilliance in the Three Kingdoms gradually became biased. No literati would like to be covered in stinky sweat, dust, and blood. On the contrary, they are contaminated with a lot of fat and sour smell, so there are very few descriptions of the specific process of the war in the remaining texts.

Most of the civil servants who have the right to write history don't know any tactics, and because of the popularity of paper and so on, the battle reports sent back from the front line are basically all about fighting against someone on a certain day in a certain year. In a certain place, the number of our troops, the number of enemy troops, the results of the battle, and whether there are important casualties or captures. The specific use of weapons, military formations, logistics, road conditions, etc., will not be released through public channels, and ordinary civil servants will have no way of knowing it, and even the emperor may not know it.

In order to enrich the content of the records, the civil servants who make history by generation can only make up their own brains. When they win, they feel that their generals are playing the opponent as pigs. The style of play is very elegant. When they fail, people feel that their generals are pigs. Individuals can win.

For example, Wei Qing's battle records, "In the autumn, Qing came out of the clouds, went to Gaoque in the west, and then went to Longxi, captured thousands of captives, more than a million livestock, and walked away with white sheep and King Loufan." Guang’s has some brain-filling ingredients, “Guang went out hunting, saw a stone in the grass, thought it was a tiger, and shot it, but the stone didn’t have an arrowhead, so he regarded it as a stone. Because he shot it again, he couldn’t return to the stone.”

  When Fei was latent for future generations, he always thought that the pawns of the Han Dynasty should be comparable to those of Rome at the same time, but later discovered that the tactical application of Han pawns in this era was actually more flexible than that of the Roman Empire. Among other things, at least it is stronger than the Roman Empire in the use of cavalry.

Otherwise, the northern Huns who were beaten up by the Han Dynasty would not ride on the head of Rome and beat Rome all the way. The Xiongnu could still defeat the eastern and western empires of Rome, and once came to the city of Rome. If the Roman archbishop at that time hadn't filled up the skill tree of bewitching, maybe the city of Rome would have been under the whip of God.

  At the time Fei Qian is in now, the standard combat routine of "one effort, then decline, and three exhaustion" is already an old calendar, and even generals who are not at all popular will not do this. After all, after the aristocrats in the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods were forced to fight by Cao GUI, a general who liked to go in the direction of the next three roads, everyone learned to be smart.

  The rhythm of war in the Han Dynasty was not as fast as in later games, and there was no such thing as "the enemy will arrive on the battlefield within five minutes". Generally speaking, even if the two armies encounter an accident in the wild, it usually takes at least three or four days to decide the winner. On the first day, they set up their own camps, on the second day they went out to try out, and on the third day they fought...

  Of course, if you meet someone like Sima Yi, even if the two armies are facing each other, you still insist on waiving the battle card, and if you don't fight, even Brother Zhu can't do anything about it, and you will be dragged down alive.

  Fei Qian didn't know anything about ancient warfare at first, but after so many battles one after another, he gradually cultivated some sense of the battlefield, like an oil seller, who has no one but is familiar with it.

   Do the best in each item, then even if you fail, you won't lose too much. After gaining experience, you will naturally be more handy next time.

Normally speaking, everyone who can be admitted to a university in the future has good learning ability, but the difference lies in whether they have the intention to study hard, just like the new generation in the future, who can hold a mobile phone at the age of three or four. Play with pesticides.

If life is at stake, Fei Qian no longer needs to study life, and he will not learn life. Therefore, although Fei Qian is not a top-notch, cunning and changeable general, he is probably on average at the top of the second-rate and below the first-rate. Online, it's almost the same. After all, Feiqian has few shortcomings in the bucket, cavalry understands it, and infantry understands it too, and because of more research on crossbows and other things, crossbowmen can also make do with it, and even know better than ordinary generals in terms of siege equipment The way to use it.

  Even if other generals want to learn, they may not have this opportunity.

  On the other hand, Fei Qian's advantages in focusing on the cultivation of soldiers are slowly manifesting now.

  The most notable aspect is the scouting.

  In addition to specific battlefields, the role of scouts and sentries is extremely important, and sometimes even determines the direction of the entire battle situation.

  So for such an important opponent's pawn, should we focus on prevention and strangulation?

   There is nothing wrong in theory, but in fact, in other princes, the operability is not very strong.

Except for a few cases where it is necessary to intercept and snipe the opponent's scouts in a targeted manner, generally speaking, even if the scouts of the two sides have seen each other, unless they happen to collide with each other, they are too far away, and the bows and arrows are too far away. They couldn't reach them, and it was useless to chase them. Most of them just spit and went back to their homes.

   To be a good scout, the first condition is not to be very good at fighting, but to know how to ride horses, to be able to count, and to have good eyesight, especially night blindness.

The conditions are not complicated. However, except for Feiqian's Bingbei Longyou area, war horses in other areas have always been scarce, let alone a large number of pawns who are proficient in riding. Therefore, in terms of the first requirement, Feiqian has Advantage.

  A large amount of trade with the Hu people, not only made profits, but also obtained a large amount of livestock. Whether it is improving physical fitness or reducing night blindness of soldiers, Feiqian also has advantages.

And most importantly, the popularization of basic knowledge in the army that has been going on in the early stage has also achieved remarkable results. Not to mention the full-time scouts and sentries under Zhengxi's command, even ordinary soldiers at the rank of corporal commander can also carry out For simple addition and subtraction within 20, you can know a hundred characters, but you don’t have to be able to write them; and when you reach the rank of senior non-commissioned officer, you must know simple addition and subtraction of three digits, and recognize a thousand characters. To be able to write, it is probably at the level of the second or third grade of elementary school in later generations...

Therefore, in the Fei Qian Army, there are a large number of people who can act as scouts and sentries, and even a few temporary team leaders can make up the number. Compared with other princes, it is much stronger.

   What's even more unique is that Feiqian's scouts even know how to camouflage on the battlefield!

  What is the best observation point?

  In what range are scouts most likely to appear?

   Who can understand the scouts better than the scouts themselves?

When Fei Qian got serious, equipped with a strong crossbow and knew how to camouflage Zhengxi scouts, he caught Yuan Jun scouts by surprise all at once, and the large number of Yuan Jun scouts was reduced. Is there any way to immediately replenish them, so the transparency of the entire battlefield is very important. Began to lean towards Fei Qian, General Zhengxi.

  Especially when Gong Jun appeared on the battlefield as a scout under the direct jurisdiction of Feiqian with a group of fierce and cunning scouts, the scouts of Yuan Jun under Gao Gan's jurisdiction had no good fruit to eat.

   If the scouts are strong, they will bring back more information, and Fei Qian will have a clearer understanding of the battlefield. For senior officials, the field of vision gradually narrows, and even twenty miles may not be fully guaranteed.

   It is not an exaggeration to say that if the two armies were at each other for a longer period of time, Fei Qian would be able to do it if he wanted to know what color of small clothes the high-ranking officials on the opposite side were wearing...

  In such a situation, as long as the foreplay is sufficient, where is there any room for the high-level officials to perform micro-operations?

  Ambush?

nonexistent.

The suppression of the quantity and quality of the scouts led to Fei Qian being able to see every move of Gao Gan, so Fei Qian naturally had the confidence to wrestle with Gao Gan. After all, there are so many great people in the Three Kingdoms. If you don't dare to confront me head-on for doing something like this, then how will you live in the future?

Let’s not talk about Fei Qian’s methodical frontal advance, just talk about the high-ranking cadres here. The best countermeasure at the moment is nothing more than either hanging the free card and sticking to it, or making a frontal formation. He didn't dare to rush out like this.

  In the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, it seems that Yan Liangwenchou is more famous than Gao Gan, but in fact Yan Liangwenchou is more like Yuan Shao's left and right pioneers. Bravery is qualified, but his commanding ability is not much better than Gao Gan.

After the senior cadre lost his vision, he immediately noticed something was wrong, but this kind of **** quality and equipment crushing happened to be something that the high cadre could not solve through other means. I don't mind hanging up the exemption card for a few days first, and wait for General Zhengxi's spirit to dissipate.

  However, high-ranking officials are not even eligible for immunity.

The news of the attack on the back road reached Gao Gan immediately, even faster than General Fei Qian of Zhengxi. After all, Gao Gan was closer here, while Zhang Liao still had to detour on Zheng Xi Feiqian's side. , is relatively far away.

  The camp is heavily guarded and the soldiers are guarded. It seems that there is not much difference from before, but the senior cadres know in their hearts that the army is still the same army, but the morale has declined a lot. The previous small victory may not be able to offset the worry of being attacked in the back.

After the short period of excitement when Zhengxi's vanguard was defeated, the high-ranking army also entered the time of sages. After all, at the ambush site in front of the camp, not only Zhengxi's cavalry fell, but also Yuan Jun's infantry. pawn. Those stumped limbs and broken arms, those wounded soldiers who were injured in the battle but did not die immediately, were enough to make the soldiers under Gao Gan's command gradually realize that the soldiers who conquered the West in front of them were more powerful than their previous opponents, Montenegro. Thieves are even more difficult, not even much worse than Baima Yicong!

  Especially when General Zhengxi's scouts completely crushed his own soldiers, resulting in ten soldiers going out, often only two or three came back, and the number of times increased, even if the high-ranking officials wanted to block the news, they couldn't do it.

  Back then Gongsun Zan's Baima Yicong was indeed defeated, but General Ju Yi almost paid the price of annihilation of the entire army. Besides, how can the elite crossbowmen under General Ju Yi be compared with the ordinary Jizhou soldiers of Gao Gan?

   Some soldiers in the camp are already muttering, and the morale of the army is a little shaken. After all, the situation is in front of us. The back road has been cut off, and there is not much food left.

Regarding these, the high-ranking cadre did not order to suppress and refute the rumors, because he knew that the more he suppressed this kind of thing, the more he could not suppress it, and the suspicion would increase. It will gradually settle down.

  But **** it, Zhengxi General Fei Qian came at this point!

  Retire, not reconciled, and dare not retreat hastily, if halfway through and then be attacked by Zhengxi, it will really be defeated like a mountain.

  Defend, you can’t defend, because although troops have been sent to the back road to connect with the small part of the troops who drove the west, it is still unknown how much it will take to reopen the back road and then transfer food and grass again.

Fighting, not fighting, and the surrounding fields are pitch black. I just know that General Zhengxi led troops to the south. There are a large number of people, at least three or four thousand, but the specific distribution, types of arms, and any special key points are not very clear. How can you fight with peace of mind?

  At this moment, Gao Gan really regretted it.

  I knew that the governor of Bingzhou was so troublesome, I might as well stay in Yecheng and continue to be Yuan Shao's other Sima to feel better...

  What else can I do, let’s try my hand at it. When the quality of soldiers is not as good as others, they can only rely on experience to make up for it. General Fei Qian of Zhengxi is young after all, so perhaps he still has some opportunities to seize this point.

  So when Fei Qian, the general who conquered the west, arrived, Gao Gan relied on the camp in the middle of the mountain to set up an array, an unconventional array...

   Fei Qian also squinted, staring at the formation of high-ranking officials in front of him.

   Speaking of the high-ranking array, it is:

   One word long snake formation, Changhong penetrating the sun; Two dragons emerge from the water formation, capturing with both claws.

  Three-talented Taiyi formation, with three legs standing upright; four-element Luohe formation, four-sided Hunyuan.

  The formation of five tigers and sheep, all at the same time;

  Seven Star Big Dipper Formation, Taiyi Lower Realm; Eight Gates Golden Lock Formation, Eight Immortals Immortals.

  Nine bends of the Yellow River array, flying sand devours lives; ten-sided ambush array, the souls of heroes die.

  Well, none of the above...

  These so-called large formations were all made up by people after the Han Dynasty. In real battles, at least now, they are absolutely invisible.

  In fact, the Han Dynasty is not completely without formations, but it is definitely not as wonderful as the descriptions of later novelists.

  According to Fei Qian’s understanding, formations are actually divided into three categories, one is used to focus on offense, the other is used to focus on defense, and the other is both offensive and defensive, corresponding to triangles, circles and squares. As for flying geese, crane wings, and hanging chariots, there was no such term in the Han Dynasty, and some were just the specific use of some basic formations.

For example, the current formation set up by high-ranking officials has nothing to do with any so-called large formations. The front is slightly retracted. The main soldiers are naturally swordsmen and spearmen. After rejecting the horse, the slightly curved rectangles are listed. The array, going down the half slope, occupies the entire **** at the foot of the mountain.

  Left wing, no.

  Because the left wing is a copycat, there should be some archers hiding among the high-level officials in the copycat, and there are not many to be seen for the time being.

  The farther right wing is a mixed force of cavalry and infantry, with the infantry behind and the cavalry in front.

  The entire array, for Feiqian's side, is near the camp on the mountain, and the farthest is Gao Gan's right wing.

  Then the high-ranking officials set up such a formation with mixed terrain and camps, what should be called to make it more majestic and resounding?

  The more powerful the opponent is, the more your own party defeats them, can you gain more happiness and satisfaction?

   Well, leaving aside the obsession with the name of the formation, as a new generation of oil sellers, which point is more suitable for Fei Qian to choose as the attack point?

  (end of this chapter)