In late August, 100,000 Xianbei troops, led by He Lianyi, crossed the border Great Wall and began to attack Pingcheng County.
After Pingcheng Wubao Captain Zhao Rong saw the boundless Xianbei army, he immediately lit a beacon to warn Mayi that the Xianbei army had moved south.
Soon the beacon fires were lit one by one, and streams of green smoke rose into the blue sky.
Looking at the smoke ignited one by one, and then looking ahead, the Xianbei cavalry could not be seen beyond the horizon.
Zhao Rong said solemnly: "Can we win this war?"
What we have to deal with this time is not a bunch of scattered horse bandits, nor are they the county soldiers with low combat effectiveness, but hundreds of thousands of Xianbei cavalry, elites who can compete with the Han border troops.
You must know that in Jizhou, the 150,000 elite Yellow Turban Army were defeated by 30,000 Youzhou frontier troops. However, such an elite army was defeated by the Xianbei people. In recent years, they can only rely on the Great Wall for defense.
In other words, these 100,000 Xianbei cavalry were more powerful than the 100,000 Northern Army of the Han Dynasty. However, when the Yellow Turban Rebel Army led by the Great Master was defeated by the 50,000 Northern Army led by Huangfu Song, Ma Yi now has to rely on
With hundreds of thousands of militiamen fighting against 100,000 Xianbei cavalry, it's no wonder Zhao Ronghui was worried.
Supervisor Qian Yu said firmly: "Of course we will win, and we must win. Behind us is Mayi, which is our homeland. Even if we fight everything here, we cannot let the Xianbei people continue to go south."
Mayi has become the hot land of Huangtian in the hearts of all the Tengjia Army, so the soldiers of the Tengjia Army will not allow anyone to destroy their hot land, not even 100,000 Xianbei cavalry.
When Zhao Rong heard this, he laughed heartily and said, "Yes, we must win."
Then he patted the city wall and said, "I hope this Xinwubao is as powerful as Commander Qu said and can withstand an army of 100,000 people!"
At the beginning, the Tengjia Army wanted to build forts to defend against the Xianbei people, but Xu Wei designed a set of six-pointed star forts. Faced with such a strange-shaped fort, everyone looked at each other. This kind of fort had never been seen before.
But Xu Wei vowed: "As long as this kind of fort has sufficient ordnance, 3,000 defenders can withstand an army of 100,000. Haven't you noticed that if the city wall is designed in this diagonal shape, no matter which side the enemy attacks, he will suffer from both sides?
Or a three-sided attack, coupled with a solid cement fortress, I can't imagine any way to break through such a fort."
The top management of Mayi had also fought several battles. When Xu Wei said this, they immediately discovered the benefits of building a fort like this. No matter where they attacked, they would be faced with enemies from the front and back, which was very beneficial to the defending side.
Although everyone didn't think it was an exaggeration to be able to defend against 100,000 troops, it was indeed more defensive than the Wubao in the Han Dynasty, so they agreed to this design.
Now is the time to test the defensive capabilities of these forts. Zhao Rong only hopes that this fort can kill or injure 20,000 to 30,000 Xianbei people.
Xu Wei from Mayi soon saw the beacon fire in the distance and knew that the Xianbei people had begun to attack. This made Xu Wei relieved. After waiting for almost two months, the Tengjia Army had been tense here, and Helian finally came
Okay, now it depends on each person’s abilities.
Xu Wei shouted at the 130,000-strong army: "The whole army sets out to defend our homeland and destroy the Xianbei people!"
Wang Lei and other generals also shouted: "Defend our homeland and destroy the Xianbei people."
The soldiers also shouted: "Defend our homeland and destroy the Xianbei people!"
The 130,000-strong army, with cavalry in front and infantry behind, marched toward Pingcheng in a mighty manner.
Not long after the march, Wang Lei separated from the main force with 10,000 cavalry. They wanted to detour through the grassland from the direction of Qiangyin and attack the Xianbei people's rear.
This is the strategy that Xu Wei and the others have discussed during this period.
Originally, Wang Ge and others planned to rely on the terrain to block the Xianbei people in Pingcheng County. This would give full play to the advantages of the Tengjia Army's infantry and ordnance, and reduce the Xianbei people's cavalry advantage. As long as they defended until winter, the Xianbei people would have to retreat.
But Xu Wei looked down upon such a conservative plan. How could he just be beaten without fighting back?
In terms of actual command, Xu Wei is very humble, because he knows that there were many famous generals in the Three Kingdoms era, but his commanding ability may not be among the top 100, so he is very self-aware.
But when it comes to making strategic decisions on paper, he knew it for 3,000 years before and 2,000 years later. He believed that no one in the world could compare with him. Could it be that his decades of political power were in vain? Hundreds of war novels
It's all in vain, even if Zhuge Liang comes to quarrel with Xu Wei in the future, he will be honest.
The bumpkin next door also made a leap of thousands of miles and thrust his knife into the back of Sima Yi, the turtle, almost cutting off his retreat.
If other time travelers found out about my conservative strategy, they would definitely laugh to death.
So he flipped through the notes he had originally taken and recalled in his mind. Are there any strategies and tactics from various eras that are suitable for his current situation?
He actually found one. It was an Anti-Japanese War novel he read more than ten years ago. The protagonist at that time was unable to defeat the powerful Japanese military. So he used a strategy called flinching.
Let the political commissar lead the masses to hide in the mountains, while the main force of his generation went to the core area occupied by the Japanese army to overturn the rivers and seas. At one time, they almost captured the county town, forcing the Japanese army to retreat and abandon the plan of encirclement and suppression.
Of course, his situation here is different. It is impossible for him to move the industrial area in Mayi to the mountains, but his strength is stronger. Detaching a partial force to attack the Xianbei people's rear will not solve the problem.
This tactic is called by Rabbit, you fight yours and I fight mine. It can be called the superior tactic of defeating the strong with the weak.
Don't really think that the Xianbei people have no logistics. They are just cattle and sheep following the army. Huo Qubing discovered this weakness of the Huns back then and led the army to attack the rear of the Huns. The Huns were defeated steadily and had to
He changed his tactics and placed his logistics and even troops in Mobei to avoid the Han army's attack.
At the same time, this also allowed Xu Wei to discover a treasure. For five thousand years, there was no one worse than the rabbit at the beginning, and he was always in a state of using the weak to attack the strong.
Although his own strength becomes stronger as he fights, the enemy's strength has increased exponentially, so much so that even in modern times, Rabbit still suffers from a phobia of insufficient firepower.
Facing such powerful enemies, Rabbit came up with strategies and tactics to defeat the strong with the weak, such as anti-slope tactics, mine warfare, tunnel warfare, and sparrow warfare. If he encounters enemies that he cannot deal with in the future,
If you recall Rabbit's strategies and tactics, you should be able to find a way.
This means that there is no chat system in the heavens, otherwise Xu Wei will definitely popularize this discovery to other travelers. As long as you are a traveler in the war plane, you don't need to bring anything else, just bring a book of Rabbit's History of the War of Resistance.
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As soon as Xu Wei mentioned this tactic, Ma Yi's top management also thought it was feasible, so they decided to implement this tactic. He Lian's hometown was not far away, and he could directly steal He Lian's hometown without even having to make a thousand-mile leap.
Compared with the bumpkin next door, Xu Wei is much happier.
Since ancient times, when the Hu people broke through Yanmen Pass and entered the Central Plains, they had to pass through Pingcheng County (which became Datong in later generations).
This is also a famous place in history. In 201 BC (the sixth year of Emperor Gaozu of the Han Dynasty), King Xin of Han rebelled in the Datong area and colluded with the Xiongnu in an attempt to attack Taiyuan. Emperor Liu Bang of the Han Dynasty personally led an army of 320,000 to attack the Xiongnu.
Qin County), and later took advantage of the victory to pursue the area as far as Loufan (now Ningwu, Shanxi). It was cold winter weather and heavy snow fell from the sky.
Liu Bang ignored the persuasion and obstruction of the outpost scout Liu Jing, underestimated the enemy and rushed forward to Pingcheng in Datong. As a result, he fell into the Huns' trick of luring troops. Liu Bang and his leading troops were besieged in Baishan Mountain in Pingcheng for 7 days and 7 nights.
Contact with the main force was severed. Later, Liu Bang adopted Chen Ping's strategy to escape.
Not far from Pingcheng County is Baishan Mountain, where Liu Bang was besieged.
Pingcheng was the first line of defense to guard the northern fortress. After Xu Wei arrived in Mayi, the Han court basically abandoned more than a dozen counties outside Yanmen Pass and withdrew officials and defenders.
Xu Wei himself was still farming in Mayi County and did not care about the surrounding counties. He basically did not manage Pingcheng County. In modern terms, Pingcheng County was in a state of anarchy. However, Pingcheng faced the Xianbei army.
When the imperial court withdrew, the people of the whole county panicked.
They need a backer! Otherwise, thousands of them would not be captured by the Xianbei people and taken to the desert as slaves.
Everyone looked around and found that the thickest thigh around was Lei Gong. At that time, Xu Wei wiped out 40,000 horse thieves. For a time, he was full of tyranny. In addition, everyone knew that Lei Gong, the commander-in-chief, did not disturb the people, so
The people in the surrounding counties took the initiative to find Xu Wei and asked him to lead troops to station in their county. The people in Pingcheng County also followed.
It happened that Xu Wei also realized the importance of the counties around Mayi, but he looked down upon the defense capabilities of these counties. After all, they were just small counties with thousands of people. The height of the city walls did not exceed 3 feet, and there were still a large number of people living there.
Among them, the city walls are still built, so how strong the defense can be. So Xu Wei found dangerous places outside these counties and built several mausoleums out of earth and cement according to the style of Western castles. Each mausoleum can
3,000 garrison troops were stationed.
Pingcheng County is the first line of defense against Xianbei attacks, and is where Xu Wei focuses his attention. Therefore, the tombs built in Pingcheng County are the strongest and tallest.
After He Lian arrived in Pingcheng County, he found that it was an empty city. Xu Wei had already asked Guo Daxian to lead the people to retreat back to Mayi. Now Pingcheng County did not leave even a single piece of wool for He Lian.
"The Han people escaped very quickly, which made it very convenient for me to march straight in!" He Lian sneered.
Tuoba Ye pointed to the Wubao not far away and said: "Great Khan, Thunder Gong occupied this land not long after he came to Mayi. For the safety of Mayi, he rebuilt a Wubao to defend our Xianbei Kingdom! No.
Once we capture this fortress, we will have no way to advance."
He Lian looked at the Wubao not far away and said, "This Wubao is so strange. Why does it look tilted?"
Tuoba Ye was also confused and said: "My subordinates don't know either. I just know that Lei Gong has built such forts in strategic places around Mayi. Each fort has 2000-3000 defenders!"
He Lian mocked: "2,000-3,000 people also want to stop Ben Khan's 100,000 cavalry. It's like a mantis trying to act like a chariot, and it's overestimating its own capabilities!"
Tuoba Ye replied: "The soldiers and the people of Mayi are one. I heard that when Thunder King attacked the Horse Thief Alliance, he gathered 100,000 troops in a few days, and then annihilated 40,000 Horse Thieves in one battle. These forts are used to delay the army.
Yes, as long as it is delayed for 3-4 days, Lei Gong can summon an army of 100,000!"
Tuoba Ye continued: "Looking at these beacons from the Great Khan, Thunder Lord should have already known that the Great Khan is coming. Next we will face an army of 100,000 people!"
He Lian said disdainfully: "It's just 100,000 farmers. I have heard that Lei Gong was one of the Yellow Turbans before he came to Mayi. A few years ago, millions of Yellow Turbans rebelled, but they were defeated by a general named Huangfu Song.
After leading tens of thousands of Han troops to defeat them, Lei Gong and other leaders of the Yellow Turban bandits fled to the Taihang Mountains. Only after Huangfu Song left did they dare to continue their rebellion.
This time they also had 300,000 people, but they were defeated by tens of thousands of Youzhou frontier troops and fled to the Taihang Mountains again. Lei Gong took the opportunity to escape from the Yellow Turban bandits and fled to Mayi!"
The news He Lian told was similar to what Tuoba Ye heard, but he still reminded: "Great Khan, I heard that Lei Gong defeated the Han army and defeated 40,000 horse thieves. Obviously his men's combat effectiveness is as good as others.
The Yellow Turban Thief is different."
But He Lian ridiculed: "If Lei Gong can defeat the Han army, he will flee to Mayi. I heard that he climbed over the Taihang Mountains and fled thousands of miles, preventing the Han army from catching up.
Come to Mayi, how can you win if you can escape quickly? And the 40,000 horse thieves are just a bunch of rabble, they can compare with our Xianbei cavalry! It is better if Lei Gong dares to lead an army, I only need 10,000 cavalry to defeat Lei Gong
100,000 farmers!”
Obviously He Lian is confident in defeating Xu Wei.
He pointed in the direction of the mausoleum and said, "Is that the legendary Baishan Mountain?"
Tuoba Ye nodded and said: "That's what the Han people said!"
He Lian suddenly said with admiring eyes: "This is the place where Moton Chanyu surrounded the Emperor of Han hundreds of years ago. If Moton Chanyu had annihilated the Emperor of Han here, the entire Central Plains would have been ours."
"It's such a pity. After I unify the Xianbei country, I will definitely lead the Xianbei cavalry to completely conquer the Han Dynasty and complete the unfinished mission of my father and Maodun Shanyu."
The status of Maodun Chanyu in the hearts of the Hu people is the same as that of Qin Shihuang in the hearts of the Han people. Qin Shihuang unified the entire China and laid the foundation of the Han Dynasty, while Maodun Chanyu unified the entire grassland and established a huge
Grassland Empire.
The historical status of the two people is the same, and even the Maodun Hu people have a higher status than Qin Shihuang in the hearts of the Han people. After all, the Han people also condemned Qin Shihuang for being cruel and unkind. Although they recognized his achievements, they thought he was a tyrant, and cruelty to Hu
It is an advantage for people, and Maodun Chanyu is a perfect leader for the barbarians.