: Take a layer of skin before killing extra

"Gao Shun and Zhuge Liang's military command method are so rigorous. How did they deliberately put our army into the first battalion wall several times, so that we could see hope, and finally regain the position bloody retrenchment? This kind of military discipline, morale, and unity as one as an arm to use fingers is simply terrible."

"I've been in trouble today. I've been fooled by the Han people these days! Even though our army gathered nearly 200,000 people, there was no city on the other side but only a camp, and I still couldn't attack!"

After the bloody battle all day, the morale of the grassland coalition was completely collapsed, with the breath of failure and painful wailings everywhere.

As we all know, it is not the most difficult to keep the troops firmly back during wars.

It is even more difficult to let the troops defied and retreat, lure the enemy into enough investment, and then try to stick to counterattack. This is also the reason why it is difficult to use when defied and fishing or "fishing in the wild".

When guarding the camp, once the first battalion wall or trench is broken through, the troops can also organize a reserve force to counterattack, engage in flexible defense and regain the position, and pull the frontal attacking enemy out of the gap between melee forces and long-range support firepower. How difficult is that?

But Zhuge Liang and Gao Shun are experts in this field.

Especially when Zhuge Liang was with Guan Yu as the Chief Secretary of the Grand Marshal/General Secretary of the General, he had already honed the essence of "elastic defense" to the extreme when he fought against the tug-of-war with Ju Su, who was also the first wise general in the Yuan camp at that time.

Unfortunately, those bloody battles at that time, which caused more than 100,000 soldiers to be killed and injured, hundreds of thousands of people were implicated, and killed for a long time for a year and a half, was a civil war between the Han people. After so much blood was shed, she finally achieved unity, but the internal friction on the nation was also huge.

Fortunately, the experience and tactical ideas accumulated in the Hanoi Battle fourteen years ago were fully inherited. Now, a considerable number of the tens of thousands of troops brought by Zhuge Liang are veterans who have participated in the Hanoi Battle for a year and a half.

With the cooperation of elite soldiers and strong generals, fighting this elastic defense battle is like an arm using his fingers.

The Xianbei and Wuhuan people have not experienced all this. Among the Yuan army generals who had experienced it, only the high-ranking officials are now in the opposite camp. But who made the high-ranking officials completely defeated by Zhang Fei and fled back to the grassland? So they could not mention Tuoba Liwei and Lou Ban.

Zhang Fei, who had defeated the high-ranking officials, has now quickly led reinforcements to the east along the northern foot of Yanshan Mountain to pull the net, and wants to completely encircle the grassland coalition forces south of Yuyang.

On the front battlefield of Dongguang County, Bohai County, there is no famous grassland general who knows how to fight a flexible defense battle. He doesn't know how to attack the enemy's strengths with his own shortcomings and does not blame him for losing.

Over the whole day, the total number of casualties in the coalition forces reached a terrifying 20,000 or 30,000, which definitely exceeded 15% of the total force. Many soldiers fled directly and were unable to stop them by the generals who supervised the battle.

Even though the grassland people are fierce and bloody, this level of casualties has reached the verge of collapse. The troops of the Central Plains farming ethnic groups generally have more than 10% of the casualties and collapse.

Considering that the Hu people's wolf nature is worthy of life, their morale is already in jeopardy.

"Finally try to rob the camp at night, and divide some troops that have not caught up with the daytime attack today and have been fully nourished. See if the night battle can overcome the damage of some Han army's god-arm crossbows, drag the battle into chaos and make profits. Regardless of whether it can be successful, you must withdraw the troops urgently in the second half of the night."

Tuoba Liwei and Lou Ban finally decided like this.

After all, the grassland coalition has an advantage of more than five times the number of people. Considering the area and scale of the battlefield, it is impossible to invest everyone when attacking the battalion, and it will definitely fall into a series of wheel battles.

Therefore, on the crowded grassland coalition, there are many reserve teams that have never participated in daytime battles, and they are still full of physical strength and morale at this moment.

Another round of wheel battles in the middle of the night made the Han army soldiers unable to sleep and rest. They tired the enemy and tired the enemy. On the one hand, they might be able to get a chance, and on the other hand, they also made the Han people so tired that they could no longer have physical strength to pursue the next day.

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Unfortunately, Tuoba Liwei and Lou Ban's last attempt was destined to be ineffective, but he threw thousands of lives into vain.

In contrast, the number of casualties on the Han army opposite was less than one-fifth of the grassland coalition, which was only more than one-tenth, which was completely within the affordable range.

It is not surprising that there are many advantages in equipment generation and defense fortifications, and it is not surprising that much less troops can even make such a crushing and exchange ratio.

This is because the Han people were seriously declining in physical strength due to the wheel battle, and their tactical actions were distorted with the fighting and fighting of front-line soldiers, so many were consumed and killed by the Hu people. If they were not exhausted, there would be fewer casualties.

Tuoba Liwei's decision was only barely achieved 30% of the expected strategic intentions - the goal of breaking the enemy and killing the enemy was not realized at all, and only achieved one tired enemy, leaving Zhuge Liang and Gao Shun's entire army without sleeping, and the next day there was no strength to pursue.

On October 27th, at the fourth morning, the main force of the grassland coalition, who had barely rested in the middle of the night, finally chose to retreat in the dark.

Fortunately, their horses were always enough, and war horses were not used in the camp's offensive and defensive battles. When soldiers suffered a large number of casualties, the horses became more and more abundant.

Therefore, the retreat speed of the grassland coalition was still very fast. Before dawn, it quietly drove away for two more times. After halfway through Chen, the scouts of the Han army completely confirmed the retreat of the grassland coalition and reported it to him, Tuoba Liwei had already walked dozens of miles.

Zhuge Liang's troops are mainly infantry, and they cannot catch up. At most, they can only be said to be a slow march and a steady battle. They can meet Taishi Ci in five days.

This means that if Taishici insists on stamina in Tuyin County, the capital of Youbeiping County, and cut off the route of the grassland coalition forces to withdraw from the Luanhe Valley in Yanshan, then Taishici will have to withstand the two or three-day time difference between the grassland coalition forces alone.

However, by then, Taishici had already fully established a camp, and perhaps a new line of defense was established along the north bank of the Luan River. Even if there were only more than 20,000 people, it would not be too easy to delay for three days.

After all, the enemy troops facing Taishi Ci must be in a worse state than when Zhuge Liang and Gao Shun encountered them. They experienced two more defeats, their morale was terrible, and they lost 30,000 to 40,000 more men. Maybe there were still many soldiers who fled and ran more than 300 miles...

With the layers of DEBUFFs, how much combat power can those Hu people still have?

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Tuoba Liwei and Lou Ban rushed for two days in a miserable way. When they crossed Yishui, they did not encounter any interceptions from the Han army, and Taishici had not made such a sudden arrangement.

However, on the 29th, when the grassland coalition arrived halfway between Yishui and Luanhe River, another bad news came from the front.

It turned out that the grassland army that had insisted on besieging Tuyin of Youbeiping had been defeated by Taishici, and the besieged camp was slightly retreated to the southwest, trying to get closer to the main force.

This is not surprising, because before, only Tian Yu's two thousand warriors were defending in Tuyin City, and the rest were temporary recruitment of civilians.

When the grassland coalition forces gave up the attack on Tuyin and ordered the two county governors of Tianyu and Tianchou to plunder and destroy Bohai County with all their might, it means that they would not be in Tuyin and left too many people outside the city. On average, the encirclement troops of each city were only about 20,000 to 30,000.

After all, Tian Chou and the Zhuang Ding Township of Wuhuan whom Tian Yu temporarily brought him can only defend the city and dioudiou stones and fire arrows, and it is impossible to go out of the city to fight. Since the goal of the grassland coalition is to siege but not fight, and to keep surveillance and food out of surveillance, it is definitely enough to siege the city with a number of people "equivalent to ten times the main combat soldiers of the Han army".

The uncertainty that Taishici unexpectedly broke out was impossible for the grassland generals to imagine.

Fortunately, the troops besieging Tuyin did not lose much, they were just defeated and did not completely collapse.

Taishi Ci came from the sea without any war horses. He tore a hole in the besieged camp of the grassland siege troops. After achieving a breakthrough, it is impossible to chase and expand the results of the battle.

The cavalry's mobility advantage over infantry can't be defeated and can run away. Taishici cannot violate objective laws.

After the main force of the grassland coalition, the defeated troops who retreated from Tuo Yin, the morale of the army became increasingly disintegrating. Tuoba Liwei and Lou Ban had to discuss whether to give up the battle with the Han people again, but instead try to take the detour to give up on the maneuvering advantage and quickly withdraw from the Yanshan Great Wall defense line.

However, even if you make up your mind to withdraw, it is not so easy to withdraw.

On the one hand, this time I entered the pass and robbed so much wealth, materials, money and food, and it was difficult to transport it away.

If you are in a hurry to run away but cannot walk a few relatively easy-to-go Yanshan Valley Road, you can only leave behind heavy grains and pigs and sheep animals like Zhang Ju and Zhang Chun who robbed Bohai more than 20 years ago, and run away with gold, silver and fine silk.

If you insist on walking the Yanshan Valley Road, you will only have the Lulongsai-Liucheng Road in northwestern Liaoning, and even the Xifengkou in northern Youbeiping (it was not called Xifengkou in the late Han Dynasty, and it did not have an official name, it was just a mountain pass in Xuwu County (now Zunhua))

And these two valley entrances will be threatened by Taishici on the north bank of the Luan River. They can set up camps to block you. Maybe when the grassland coalition forces arrived, Taishici had already recovered or cut off these two Great Wall passes.

If you don’t walk the way, but go west, you can exit Yuyang, but that place is too close to Shanggu County and Juyong Pass. At this moment, Zhang Fei probably has returned to the army to block Yuyang. The current situation of that place is "covered with war fog, and it is unclear how much the enemy situation is", so you must not take risks.

After all, we gave up all the heavy supplies and population we stolen, and even gave up some of the cattle and horses that were inconvenient to transfer with lame legs and injuries, and we almost retreated in the mountains.

Or choose any one of Zhang Fei or Taishi Ci and rush over to fight a battle?

A few hours were wasted to hold an emergency military discussion, and the grassland coalition made the final decision: try to rush, mainly to rush, and it would not take much time.

After all, they don’t need to “annihilate the enemy” mentality like when they fought Zhuge Liang. When they fought with Taishi Ci, they just need to “break through” mentality, make every effort to seek breakthroughs.

If you can't completely annihilate the enemy, can't you still concentrate your efforts to break through? The key is whether you can break through. You can see the difference on the same day. If you can't break through, you will immediately follow up the backup plan, so as not to miss the problem.

Otherwise, this time I entered the pass, I would have worked hard and lost so much vitality. In the coming year, Liu Bei really launched a comprehensive northern expedition to the grassland area, and all ethnic groups on the grassland would be unable to withstand it.

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On the last day of the end of October, early in the morning, the main force of the grassland coalition, with 200,000 people, launched a simultaneous swimming swim on the south bank of the Luan River, on a very wide front.

Youzhou is very cold in winter, and the water level of the Luan River is relatively low in the dry season. It stretches hundreds of miles east and west, and there are more than a dozen locations where cavalry can directly wading across the river without boats.

Moreover, this season, many shallow and slow waters in the Luan River have even been completely frozen. Except for slipping a little, everything is very suitable for cavalry maneuvers.

In Hebei, it is normal for rivers to freeze and freeze. With such a large amount of water in the Yellow River, it can freeze several feet thick in the twelfth lunar month, but it is just impossible to freeze the bottom, but it is okay to be careful when you leave or even run horses on it.

The Luan River is hundreds of miles north of the Yellow River, and the water volume is many times smaller. It is entirely due to the confluence of precipitation in the Yanshan Mountains in the two nearby counties. Therefore, even at the end of the 10th lunar calendar, there are even frozen river sections at the bottom.

In fact, if the princes of the grassland were one month later, Taishici would not be so easy to get around. At that time, even the sea surface of the Bohai Bay would be frozen and the Han army's ships would not be able to drive in.

If you want to blame, the Hu people in the grassland do not know how to navigate. They do not have common sense in this area. They clearly live in that north, but do not understand whether the Bohai Sea can break the ice and start the ship in the twelfth lunar month. Even when they first set up their strategies, they did not think about this factor, and only considered that "it is too cold for the nomadic cavalry to fight themselves, and livestock are prone to freezing to death and frostbite and no horses."

After crossing the river, Taishi Ci tried to spread all the sea boats that could move upstream, forcing the Hu people to cross the river and try to find half a ferry to attack. It's a pity that Taishi Ci had few soldiers and could not block every place.

Any lucky spot caught by Taishi Ci was basically hit hard by half a ferry. Countless cavalrymen were almost lost in mobility and combat effectiveness during the swimming process, and were shot and killed by the Han army on the boat on the shore in batches, and the Luan River water was red for a while.

After all the grassland coalition forces came ashore to cross the river, Taishici gathered heavy troops to defend the Xifengkou Valley Road in Xuwu County and launched a bloody battle with the grassland coalition forces.

After so many days of continuous journey, the morale of the grassland troops had not been rested, and their morale had simply declined to the critical point. The available troops were already seven or eight times that of Taishi Ci, and they could not break through the Great Wall from the inside to the outside. Half a month ago, when they broke through the pass from north to south, it was not that difficult to pass the Great Wall. Now it is even more difficult to go back than to come in.

The two sides fought bloody battles in the Xifengkou Valley until the second day of November. In the end, Tuoba Liwei and Lou Ban's mentality finally collapsed a little, mainly because they realized that the morale and morale of the soldiers below were extremely tense, and if they went down, the people's hearts would completely collapse.

Especially many of the Wuhuan tribes in the army began to flee, and even planned to put down their weapons and hide their names and pretend to be the people of the Han Dynasty. After all, there are so many Wuhuan people in the local area, and it is really difficult to distinguish when they get in.
Chapter completed!