When strength is insufficient, holding on and waiting for help is undoubtedly a correct strategy, but just like all policies are subject to human deviations, the current correct strategy of the forward camp also has deviations.
A very terrible deviation.
The forward camp is the cavalry camp.
The cavalry camp occupies a wide area so that the cavalry can assemble within the camp and run a short distance. After all, anyone who has ever commanded a cavalry knows that cavalry must run in order to exert its power.
A cavalryman standing still is a target.
In order to allow the cavalry to run and start fighting the moment they leave the camp, the cavalry camp not only leaves a large open space in the middle of the camp, but even the entrance to the camp and the roads in the camp are relatively open. This
This makes the defense of the cavalry camp and the defense of the infantry camp completely different concepts.
A general infantry camp relies on its walls, strong and dense arrays, sentry towers and archers for defense, while the defense of a cavalry camp relies on cavalry...
When an enemy attacks the camp, except for a small number of soldiers stationed in the camp, most of the cavalry will immediately disperse from the camp, either to pull in, to flank, or to assault the enemy's main formation. Anyway, the enemy
If there is no way to resist the back and forth harassment of the cavalry, it will definitely not be possible to attack the camp with peace of mind.
The cavalry is still the king of war in this era. Its powerful mobility and impact determine the initiative on the battlefield. But the problem now is that the forward camp is still the same cavalry camp, but the soldiers inside have changed from having horses to thin horses.
Even horseless...
What's more, in order to allow the war horses to fight for a longer time and ensure the endurance of the war horses, the cavalry will relatively choose smaller bodies, more flexible and lighter bodies. Such soldiers can reduce the weight of the war horses and obtain longer endurance.
In terms of combat ability, after all, a heavy item like Guan Erye would not be able to carry it without a top-notch war horse like Red Rabbit Horse.
Of course, it is also because of Guan Erye's physique and force, so when Guan Erye rides the red rabbit horse, it is almost the same as a heavyweight boxing champion and a lightweight boxing partner in the ring.
Similarly, the Han cavalry with horses could beat the horse thieves on their butts, but the cavalry without horses would be beaten randomly by the horse thieves.
The horse thieves had no formation to speak of. They whistled randomly, attacked intermittently, and threw lighted rockets and torches into the camp. Although from time to time some horse thieves fell from their horses after missing their counterattack arrows in the camp, they still suppressed the Han soldiers.
The excitement of the military fight made these horse thieves almost crazy and fearless.
The generals of the cavalry often follow the army. In order to seize the fleeting opportunity between battles, the generals of the cavalry are generally on the front line, advancing and retreating with the large troops, and engaging in personal confrontations with the enemy. They become
The target of the opponent's key attack is even more dangerous in each battle than ordinary cavalry, so the loss rate of cavalry generals is very high.
The generals of the infantry can sit on a high platform at the rear, and there are a large number of thick-shielded personal guards under the platform. If they can't see it, they can leave the infantry fighting fiercely on the front line, like a gecko with its tail cut off.
Blocking the enemy's advance gives you a chance to escape, so infantry generals generally have a higher survival rate on the battlefield.
The cavalry generals died more and the infantry generals died less, so that the further we went back, the fewer and fewer people understood cavalry tactics, and fewer were willing to do the cavalry type, or what is called the frontline command type, and more were
Controlled from a safe position in the back, it even becomes a "trick-and-trick" remote control in the rear.
I have to say that Mr. Luo’s so-called Zhuge style trick in The Romance of the Three Kingdoms has allowed those who insist on studying to succeed in killing many people...
Idiot will kill people.
It is said that if one general is incompetent, the three armies will be exhausted.
Ma Xiu was not a very powerful general. His martial arts skills were just better than those of ordinary horse thieves and stronger than those of ordinary Han soldiers. After all, there was still some inheritance in the family.
But Pound was different.
Pound is probably the monkey version of Guan Yu?
The horse thieves who were excited to fight roared and rushed everywhere in chaos. Anyway, the horse thieves were used to fighting without any order, so the more chaotic they felt, the more they felt that they were at their own pace, while Pound was leading a group of people.
A small group of cavalry was preparing to attack the Han army's camp head-on.
The horse thieves in front of Pound's array began to pinch their fingers and whistle, signaling other horse thieves blocking the route to get out of the way.
Pang De and his men slowly began to accelerate amidst the chaotic noise.
The war horse leaps lightly. The natural habit formed over thousands of years makes the war horse subconsciously follow the leading horse, and it can maintain a relatively consistent speed without any special control by humans.
Pound paid no attention to the light arrows flying from far away, and observed his array from left to right while running. All four hundred of his men started jogging, and there were surging figures everywhere. The array did not appear due to acceleration.
Despite the chaos, some results from more than a year of training were still showing, which made Pang De feel slightly relieved.
This battle must be fought with authority, otherwise the banner of "doing justice for heaven" will not be erected!
No matter what this "Heavenly Way" is, for Pound, loyalty to Ma is probably the last remaining "Heavenly Way" in Pound's mind.
After a while, the slow sound of horse hooves gradually began to accelerate, and the intensive sound of hoofbeats slowly merged into a rumbling sound, which was like fairy music in Pang De's ears.
Some horse thieves in front of Pound panicked and moved their horses out of the way, and then watched Pound and the others whizzing by. In their panic, they suddenly became even more excited, roaring loudly and followed Pound and the others.
These horse thieves have often suffered losses from the Han cavalry array, so when these horse thieves saw that they also had such an array, they felt that the losses and suffering they had suffered back then could be repaid today!
The array strengthens not only group fights and duels, but also a subtle collective concept. Just like the few horse thieves facing the camp gate, the scattered horse thieves usually choose to avoid it, but Pang De
He raised his hand and said, "Ma Laoliu! Lead someone to knock him away!"
Without a queue, everyone only thinks about themselves, but with an array, individuals belong to the array.
Ma Laoliu roared filial piety and sped up, "Goudan! Follow me!"
If it were a horse that was resisting the infantry camp, Pound would not dare to hit it.
Because according to the infantry's code of conduct, the horse guard at the camp gate must be nailed into the ground and then tamped down with a stone. Not to mention bumping it, even if it is given time to slowly dismantle it, it is laborious. However, because the cavalry camp often
War horses need to come in and out, so the horses are mobile and can be carried away directly by three or four people.
Ma Laoliu left the formation, put a blindfold on the war horse, and frantically urged the war horse to speed up.
Ma Laoliu was thin, a bad gambler, and liked prostitution. He usually cheated and played around, but at this time, his face turned red, his veins were exposed, he roared, and he and his horse ran into Juma!
With a bang, Juma was knocked off the ground, and Ma Laoliu also jumped into the air, flipped two or three times in the air, and then hit the ground with a bang, blood dripping from his head and face, but he
But he laughed out loud, he didn't die, he just made a profit!
Because he has made a meritorious service and can be rewarded with more money.
Being thin also has the advantage of being thin. If a person with a heavy body falls like this, he may be half dead due to his own weight, just like Mr. Guan once fell off his horse, he couldn't get up for a long time, but Zhao Zilong fell off his horse and was beaten.
To somersault is to keep fighting.
When Pound saw that the horse at the camp gate was knocked open, he shouted, "Speed up! Everyone speed up!"
The Han troops in the camp also shot hard at Pang De and others. Several cavalrymen on both sides of the array were shot and then fell over, but it did not affect Pang De and his men who finally rushed into the camp!
The Han army camp, which lost its horses and was forced to fight as infantry, finally inevitably fell into chaos. It was like a martial arts master who had lost his easy job and was beaten with bricks by a group of gangsters.
fall down.
Frustrated.
pain.
have no choice.
Presumably Lu Bu, who was on the White Gate Tower, was in the same mood as these Han soldiers at the moment.
"kill!"
Pound roared and waved his sword.
The sound of breaking and the collision of men and horses continued continuously. The sound of gun blades colliding and rubbing against each other made people's teeth sore. The Han soldiers who could not avoid were hit by the horses and their bones were broken. They fell to the ground with spurts of blood. Some horses were knocked crooked by the reaction force.
However, most of the Han soldiers were directly crushed under the hoofs of the horses.
Pang De's dense array took advantage of the situation and killed him directly from one end of the camp to the other. Under the galloping horses, these Han soldiers who were transferred to infantry were unable to resist, even if these Han soldiers bravely used
The sword and the lance are fighting...
It's not that these Han soldiers are not brave, nor is it that these Han soldiers did anything wrong. The biggest sin of these people may be that when their superiors are lazy, they also follow suit. But this is considered
What's their fault? On the first day they joined the army, they were required to obey their superiors and obey military orders, so what could they do?
After Pang De led his men to charge for the second time, the entire Han army camp completely collapsed. The array that originally had a few holes was riddled with holes by Pang De, leaving only corpses and wounded people on the ground.
The resistance array of the soldiers was in pieces. Everyone was in panic and completely lost their command. However, the attack was not over yet. What greeted them was the crazy hacking and killing by the horse thieves who followed.
This is a massacre.
If these Han soldiers did not obey the military orders and did not lose their horses...
Just like the mistakes that continued to be repeated in the feudal dynasties of later generations, every time a mistake was made, someone would definitely stand tall, or make a summary, or criticize, or with some other emotion or purpose, and then
It expresses what if and what should not be.
They are all right and make sense.
But the next time, it seems like we are repeating the same mistake as last time.
The Han army's forward camp was almost completely destroyed.
Ma Xiu stood on the Han army flag, stamping on it and laughing crazily.
Pang De glanced at it for a few times, then sat silently wiping the war blade in his hand.
The remaining horse thieves were happily cleaning the battlefield and fighting for the spoils of war.
"Lu is unkind, we will do justice for heaven!" Ma Xiu put his hands on his hips and shouted loudly, "Go and pull the white cloth. We will use this blood to erect the flag of heaven! Invite the leaders from all walks of life to come here to form an alliance!"
If you don’t come, hehe, hahahaha..."
"Come here! Put up the flag of heaven! We will do justice for heaven!"
……_(|3 ∠)_……
Just as planned, Wei Xu had no intention of actually rescuing the forward camp.
Wei Xu thought that this so-called emergency military report of "horse thieves attacking" was just an ambush arranged by Chen Ada in advance to avoid culpability. If someone traces the lack of horses in the forward camp, it can be said that it is because of the horse thieves' attack.
And it was damaged.
Anyway, within the Chinese officialdom, isn’t it true that everything is concealed from the superiors but not from the subordinates?
The people below know everything, but when the people above don't seem to know, the people below know nothing. Once the people above know, the people below seem to know everything all of a sudden.
So Wei Xu also prepared his ideas and followed the process anyway.
Besides, Lu Bu was about to prepare for a big celebration on July 15th. With such an important opportunity to make money... well, an important performance opportunity, how could Wei Xu just sit back and watch it go away?
After making up my mind and going through the motions, everything became easier.
He summoned the soldiers step by step, prepared supplies and other things, and then carefully inspected them. He found a few problems, not big or small, and ordered them to rectify them. Finally, after everything was ready, he got up early and rushed.
It was like a late-night gathering. Starting at midnight in the morning, there were all kinds of stumblings. Finally, the whole army was dispatched. After walking less than twenty miles, it meant that it was getting late and they were stationed to rest.
After that, the news that "the enemy has withdrawn" from the forward camp was "received"...
Wei Xu cursed loudly, expressing his dissatisfaction with Chen Ada's irresponsible behavior, and then asked his confidant Ergouzi to take a few people to the forward camp, deliver a verbal reprimand, and then ordered everyone to return to the army.
One day and one night is a victory lap.
How simple!
Speaking of which, can these people from Ergouzi be considered the "reinforcements" who have arrived at the forward military camp?
Strictly speaking, Er Gouzi and others did not actually go to the forward military camp. They found traces of a large group of horse thieves halfway along the way. They were so frightened that they hid in a mountain col with their horses and waited for the horse thieves to pass by.
Then he cautiously poked his head out again.
After being frightened for a while, Er Gouzi didn't dare to move forward, but he also felt something was wrong in his heart, and it felt inappropriate to just go back like this. After repeated hesitation, Er Gouzi had no choice but to walk day and night.
, sneaking around the vanguard camp, only to find that the vanguard camp has become a paradise for horse thieves...
A huge flag of "Practice for Heaven" is flying high!
"What the hell? Do you want to do justice for heaven?" Ergouzi hurried back and reported the news to Wei Xu.
Wei Xu was immediately stunned.
"Didn't you say that Chen Ada just lied about the military situation?" Wei Xu stared and said, "Did you get it wrong? How could there be horse thieves? How could there be so many horse thieves? What else is there to do for heaven?"
?Did you eat something you shouldn’t have eaten? Did you see something wrong because of your madness?』
Ergouzi cried sadly, "General, I read it right...it's true...I risked my life to find out..."
"No..." Wei Xu felt his head was in chaos, "Wait a minute, I have to think about it... Are you sure this is a real horse thief?"
"Yeah, yeah. What a thief." Ergouzi nodded crazily.
Wei Xu suddenly became furious and slapped Er Gouzi in the face, "How dare you say you are a real horse thief?! Then damn it, we only said two days ago that the horse thieves had been repulsed! Ah! Now you say it again
There is a horse thief?! Ah?! Are you not fucking slapping me in the face, slapping Daduhu’s face?! Just slap me in the face, you are still... bastard! Damn it! Damn it! 』
Ergouzi covered his face, "This, no, ah, general, wuwu, this... otherwise, isn't it a real horse thief? Is it a fake?"
Wei Xu slapped him again with his backhand, "What a lie! Are you fucking stupid? Ah? The forward camp is full of horse thieves. That loser Chen Adana must be finished! Can this matter be kept hidden? Ah?!"
Are you telling lies? Are these fake horse thieves going to destroy all the forward barracks? Do you fucking think that everyone else is a fool and you believe whatever you say?!"
Ergouzi immediately didn't know what to say. He would be beaten if he told the truth, and he would be beaten if he told lies...
"Pa!" When Wei Xu saw Ergouzi not speaking, his anger rose and he slapped him again, "Speak, aren't you usually pretty good at talking? Why don't you fart now?"
?』
"..." Ergouzi was extremely aggrieved. Seeing that Wei Xu seemed to want to beat him, he quickly said, "I'm thinking of a way, I'm thinking of a way..."
Wei Xu then snorted heavily and stopped beating him.
Even though Wei Xu beat Ergouzi smoothly, Wei Xu himself was actually very panicked.
Wei Xu also didn't expect such a thing to happen.
There are indeed many horse thieves in the Western Regions, but they are like weeds in the Western Regions. Even if they are set on fire, they will still grow there in the next year, and they cannot be controlled or caught cleanly.
There is nothing wrong with Wei Xu's understanding. The abundance of horse thieves is indeed a feature of the Western Regions. In the Western Regions of nomadic peoples and city-states, as long as you can get a horse and a knife, you can become a horse thief.
These two things are not considered too noble in the Western Regions.
The most critical thing is that the Western Regions are still very poor. The vast majority of profits from the Han Silk Road fell into the hands of capital, which did not make the ordinary people in the Western Regions rich. Many ordinary people could no longer survive and were desperate.
If you go out and fight for your life, there is nothing surprising about it.
The poorer the place, the more chaotic it is, not only in the Western Regions, but also in South Vietnam, the Northern Desert, and among the mountains. Beastiality will be magnified and human nature suppressed.
But these cannot be used as an excuse for Wei Xu to be exempted from liability!
If it could be justified before, how can it be justified now that a big mess has appeared in the forward camp? If the above, or someone else, did a little investigation, wouldn't everything be revealed?
Then follow the vine and touch the melon...
The egg cannot be pulled out.
"Damn it! Damn it!" Wei Xu cursed angrily. At this moment, he was not thinking about the Han soldiers who died innocently in the forward camp. He was only thinking about his own hat, status, and authority.
Er Gouzi, who was standing aside, suddenly said with a sudden realization: "Yes, the general is right! This, this Chen Ada really deserves to die, deserves to die!"
Wei Xu raised his hand irritably, wanting to hit Ergouzi, but suddenly his heart moved and he paused, "You...what idea did you have in mind?"
Ergouzi winked and said, "General, this... Chen Ada deserves to die... He actually surrendered to the enemy! He secretly communicated with the horse thieves and deceived the general..."
"What do you mean?" Wei Xu was startled, and then he realized what he was doing. He immediately burst into laughter, beaming with joy, "Haha, hahahaha, yes, yes! Hey! I am just a soft-hearted person, and I was deceived by a beast like Chen Ada.
