Zhang He smiled bitterly and said: "Guerrilla warfare is the strength of the Tengjia Army because we cannot prevent it. I am not sure that the weak will defeat the strong."
It was a joke that the Tengjia Army and his cavalry were the ancestors of guerrilla warfare. Zhang He could only call this a pirated version. He didn't think his pirated version could defeat the genuine version!
Zhang He continued: "Although there is still a lot of food and grass in Jixian County, most of the weapons and equipment have been lost in our camp. There is not much in Jixian County. We will not be able to fight the Tengjia Army with a sword!"
Jixian was the place where the Han army stored grain. Huangfu Song stored 5 million stones of grain and grass here. It can be said that although their army of hundreds of thousands lost their tents, Yuan Shao and the others were not short of food after arriving in Jixian.
Now Yuan Shao asked every soldier crossing the river to hold rice bags. These grains and grasses will be their combat rations for the next month. After this month, there will be grains and grasses transported from the rear of Jizhou, so they don't have to worry about the grains and grasses issue.
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But there is nothing we can do about the weapons and equipment, because most of the weapons and equipment of the Han army are in the Han army camp, and most of them have been discarded by them. Now they have become the trophies of Thunder God. Although Jixian still has a lot of reserve ordnance and weapons, most of them
They were all damaged on the battlefield and were sent here for repairs. The entire Jixian County did not have many weapons and equipment, which were not enough to arm the hundreds of thousands of troops. There was no way they could wait for the weapons from Jizhou to come over and then fight against the Tengjia Army.
Although Yuan Shao's current army of hundreds of thousands cannot be said to have abandoned its armor, it is not much better. On average, each soldier does not even have a weapon.
Most of them were lost on the march. After all, the lighter the burden, the faster they can run. Many soldiers felt that having a sword weighing several kilograms on their bodies was a huge burden. If Yuan Shao hadn't stopped them, the soldiers would have lost their swords.
I want to throw away all my armor.
It can be said that Yuan Shao's army of hundreds of thousands has no shortage of longbows, crossbows, and weapons and equipment. The weapons in Jixian can only barely replace their lost weapons, but there are basically no longbows and crossbows. It can be said that their dozen or so
Wan Dajun has lost its long-range attack capability.
If faced with ordinary rebellious bandits, this would be nothing. After all, they don't have many weapons and equipment, let alone shooting crossbows.
But the Tengjia Army was different. Yuan Shao and the others fought with the Tengjia Army for more than half a year. They realized that the Tengjia Army was inhumane. As long as they fought, they would definitely win a wave of crossbows first. After a battle, there would be as few as ten.
Ten thousand to hundreds of thousands of crossbow arrows were fired at them, and half of their army's casualties were caused by crossbow arrows!
The crossbow arrows of the Tengjia Army made Yuan Shao and others accustomed to carrying a shield the size of a door panel to defend against crossbow arrows falling from the sky at any time.
In their current situation, when fighting against the Tengjia Army, the Tengjia Army could completely defeat them with just crossbows. It was basically impossible for them to continue fighting.
Moreover, melee weapons are also a big problem. They have no shortage of swords, guns, swords and halberds. Now they are fighting against the Tengjia Army with less than one weapon per person. They are basically looking for death.
As long as you fight the Tengjia Army a few times, the damaged weapons cannot be replenished, and you will have to fight the Tengjia Army with bare hands later!
Weapons are consumed very quickly on the battlefield. The more intense the battlefield, the faster they are consumed. In the battle between the Tengjia Army and Huangfu Song, because the Tengjia Army has many iron armors and sharp swords, thousands of swords will be lost in each battle.
Armor, weapons and equipment.
Therefore, there were many spare weapons in the Han army's camp, and Han soldiers generally prepared 2-3 weapons as backup, but they left all these weapons in the camp when they fled for their lives.
On the battlefield, there is no such thing as in the world of martial arts. A sword can conquer the world. It will not be used up for hundreds of years and can be kept as a family heirloom.
The reality is that after a battle, the swords are pitted like saw teeth, which requires the warriors to polish and repair them themselves. There are countless spears, halberds, swords and swords that have been cut off, and these have to be handed over to the rear for re-forging.
, experienced veterans will prepare more weapons for themselves.
This is why Zhang He is not optimistic that Yuan Shao can defend Zhuojun. He thinks that their hundreds of thousands of troops have become defeated and have no morale to continue fighting against the Tengjia Army. Yuan Shao can bring these hundreds of thousands of troops back to Jizhou.
It's already a huge victory.
After hearing Zhang He's words, Yuan Shao looked ugly and said: "I won't defend if we can't defend it. If we can't defend it in Zhuo County, we will be in a dead end when we return to Jizhou. What can we do to resist the 200,000 cavalry of the Tengjia Army when we return to Jizhou?"
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For the generals of the Han Dynasty, the most terrifying thing about Lei Gong's rebellion is that he occupies the entire desert and can easily mobilize hundreds of thousands of barbarians in the desert. How can Lei Gong be rebellious? He is simply an enhanced version of Tan Shihuai!
This is why when Huangfu Song heard that Lei Gong was attacking Youzhou, he immediately led his troops to support him. Yuan Shao must really defend Zhuo County, because after Youzhou fell, Jizhou would definitely not be able to defend it! Then Lei Gong really wanted to defend it.
Drinking from the Yellow River.
Zhang He thought for a while and comforted Yuan Shao: "We still have time. The Tengjia Army is short of food and grass. Lei Gong leads an army of hundreds of thousands to fight us. The food and grass consumed will definitely not be small. The Tengjia Army's food reserves may not last even for the autumn harvest."
No, now that spring plowing is around the corner, as long as Lei Gong doesn’t want dozens or millions of people to starve to death in the Tengjia Army’s territory, he will definitely stop this war within half a month!”
Yuan Shao doubted: "What if Lei Gong insists on attacking Jizhou? The situation now gives the Tengjia army a huge advantage. As long as Lei Gong pursues the victory and defeats our army of hundreds of thousands, it will not be very difficult to occupy the entire Jizhou. We can occupy the land of Hebei and starve to death for dozens of people."
Thousands of people, what do the people mean?"
For Yuan Shao, hundreds of thousands of people starve to death for hegemony. For Yuan Shao, this is something that he does not need to choose at all. I believe that a hero like Lei Gong would not know how to choose!
Zhang He smiled bitterly and said: "According to Lei Gong's past practices, it is really possible for him to stop! Although it is unbelievable, Lei Gong has not done anything harmful to the people since his uprising. If he had not been to rescue the victims, Hebei would have been destroyed a few years ago.
It was captured by him, now besides hoping that Lei Gong will stop moving forward, do we have any other choice?"
These words really frustrated Yuan Shao. His life and death were actually decided by his enemies. His situation made Yuan Shao angry and helpless!
But soon Yuan Shao said: "If the Tengjia Army is really short of food and grass, the millions of stones of food in Jixian County cannot be kept. They must be burned. Otherwise, these food will become the weapon used by Lei Gong to attack us!"
When Zhang He heard about Ji County's grain and grass, an idea flashed in Zhang He's mind and he said: "General Yuan really wants to bring the army back to Jizhou safely. Several million stones of grain can become an important condition for us to negotiate with the Tengjia Army!"