The battle only occurs at the moment when the fighter plane arrives, while the war is a long and boring wait.
With Camel City as the center, Mo Yujing, who relied on Mongolian soldiers to guard the position, was waiting. Lin Chengdong was under siege in the west and was waiting. Yang Jiamo from Gaotai Qianhu Station in the east was waiting. Liu Chengzong was once again stationed in the Gobi desert in the west. In the handsome tent, Liu Chengzong looked a little decadent. In fact, it was not just him, but everyone in the entire Huben camp was not doing much better.
The place where he was stationed was called Xu Sanwan, which was only a dozen miles away from Luotuo City. This place was also an ancient city, but it was an abandoned ancient city. Suokang, the head of Sanjiehui who accompanied the army as a guide, said that this city was built in Hongwu.
It was built in five years and was called Gaotai Station at that time. Later it was the administrative center of Gaotai Qianhu Office from the 12th year of Hongwu to the 7th year of Jingtai.
The reason for its abandonment is very simple. The desertification makes it impossible to cultivate the land, and there is a shortage of water. It is very short of water, so the Gaotai Thousand Households Residence was moved to the east bank of the Heihe River.
At this time, it was shown that Lin Chengdong, the Ming general who led the Cheying camp, was familiar with the terrain near Ganzhou. The location of the Cheying camp was very good. It was outside an abandoned village between Luotuo City and Xusanwan. There was well water there.
For them to use.
Feng Yu and Wei Qian'er, who were building the wall outside, were not so lucky. They dug several wells underground, but no water came out.
But fortunately, there is an ancient city in Xusanwan, which has been reclaimed intermittently for two hundred years. Although there is no farmland now, only patches of barren hills that are difficult to distinguish, the work of the predecessors can still guide the flow of groundwater for Liu Chengzong.
In fact, this matter is not complicated. It is difficult to find whether there is underground water in a place in the desert, but it is not difficult in such abandoned hills. It is spring now, and sparse weeds are growing in the wasteland. Where are the grass and trees?
If there is a dense area next to it, or where grass grows, there will probably be water underneath.
In winter, where the snowflakes fall on the ground and are slightly larger than the others, there is water. On the contrary, if the snowflakes are small and normal on the sides, then there are stones, ores, tombs or ancient city walls below.
Huben Camp easily dug a few wells in Xu Sanwan, but the water in the wells was shallow and bitter, and the water flow was not large. It was difficult for Huben Camp to use it for its own use, and it was impossible to deal with Feng Yu and Wei Qian'er's Second Battalion.
Provide water support.
The water for their two camps has to be transported from Luotuo City, which is more than ten miles away.
This is still a good season for them to fight. There is a snowmelt impact river in the Qilian Mountains that passes through Luotuo City. This river only has water in spring.
In the commander's tent, several officers from the Huben camp had already mapped out the situation according to the three victories reported by Tang. The map was placed on the table. Liu Chengzong looked at the map and the situation was very clear.
The Ming army general and he are taking risks to varying degrees, but in terms of the situation alone, the Marshal's Mansion is at a greater disadvantage.
Because the Ming army had mobilized heavy troops to pursue Gao Yingdeng, even with Zhang Tianlin's troops behind him, the troops on the eastern battlefield were still at a disadvantage; and the car camp he surrounded was just a piece of useless material.
If you surround them with troops, it is a waste of force and will have little impact on the battle situation; if you don't surround them, the firepower of the car camp is very powerful, and ignoring them will become a foreshadowing of defeat.
Liu Chengzong frowned secretly as he looked at the map. The key to winning the game was to find Yang Jiamo.
The battle situation was indeed different from Liu Chengzong's original idea. He sent troops from Suzhou in order to lure the Ming army out of their defensive positions, annihilate them in the desert, and cut off the Gansu frontier army first.
But now that the annihilation was not successful, some of the enemy troops were mobilized in the opposite direction. This was something he never expected at the beginning of the war.
The good thing is that the battle lines between the two sides stretch for four hundred miles, and all the troops that can be pushed out are on the table. Liu Chengzong has no reserve camp, and only the Chinese Army's Huben Camp is still hidden.
But after all calculations, the Gansu frontier army was defeated and annihilated in the confrontation. The number of troops lost in the siege has exceeded 10,000. The troops supporting Zhuang Langhe eastward were at least 10,000. Excluding Li Hongsi's troops who were chasing Gao Yingdeng, there were no more troops on the battlefield.
It is difficult for the Ming army to be fully organized again.
Liu Chengzong calculated that Yang Jiamo should still have a general military standard battalion with strong combat effectiveness, and at most a deputy general military standard battalion, which would be eight thousand troops, which would be enough.
There are only so many movable and immovable troops in Gansu, both inside and outside.
Calculated in this way, it is now a race against time. To the west of the battlefield, the Marshal's Mansion can gather superior forces; to the east of the battlefield, the Ming Army can gather superior forces.
Liu Chengzong sent people to call over the brigade commander Yang Yao and the general Wei Qian'er who were besieging Cheying.
As soon as Wei Qian'er came over, he made a report on the work of besieging the car camp.
Liu Chengzong only listened to half of it and couldn't listen anymore.
In the Battle of Hehuang and the siege of Tuocheng, the Marshal's Army already had a set of conventional siege tactics for facing strong enemies.
If the camp is not stable, charge forward; if it cannot be charged, then encircle it; if it cannot be encircled, it is time to fight in the field; if the enemy does not dare to fight in the field, it will be trapped; when the enemy is trapped to the end, he will have to break out; after breaking out, he will return to the field field, or he will surrender.
This is a very mature process for cleaning up car camps or castle defenders, and it is also a combat habit that Liu Chengzong has developed over a long period of time.
Those with cannons, those with cities, and those with chariots are all strong enemies. A strong enemy means an enemy whose attack and defense have been strengthened. This kind of enemy is a fool who does not take the lives of his subordinates seriously if he fights these things head-on.
, our ancestors made it clear long ago.
Sun Tzu's Art of War says that you should wait for chaos with order, wait for chaos with tranquility, wait for nearness with distance, wait for fatigue with fatigue, wait for hunger with fullness, there is no flag to invite righteousness, and there is no formation to strike.
He waved his hand to interrupt Wei Qian'er's report and said: "That's not why I called you here. Tonight, your battalion will change defenses with the Huben camp. Early tomorrow morning, hold my military flag and go to Luotuo City to bring Mo and Mo
Jing shouted out and walked towards the high platform."
Wei Qian'er blinked, knowing that Liu Chengzong was about to start performing for the Ming army again.
Liu Chengzong said: "If you don't encounter an enemy, just go up to the high platform and weaken Ganzhou, build a strong wall and clear the fields to prepare for the attack. If you encounter an enemy, be extremely careful. It must be Yang Jiamo, the commander-in-chief of Gansu."
When Wei Qian'er heard the name Yang Jiamo, he was so excited that the hairs on his body stood up and asked: "The commander-in-chief thinks Yang Jiamo is in Ganzhou?"
Liu Chengzong shook his head: "Not necessarily, I just hope he is in Ganzhou."
He exhausted all the possibilities in his mind. Yang Jiamo had led two battalions to squat in Ganzhou City earlier. Now he has stepped on Gao Yingden's face with his horse's hooves. He is the worst one.
It was precisely for this reason that he planned to let Wei Qian'er and Huben camp change defenses at night, and then send Wei Qian'er to the front.
This is not to lure the enemy, nor to seize the city, but to encircle Wei and rescue Zhao. If Yang Jiamo leads his army to deal with Gao Yingdeng and besiege Ganzhou before Gao Yingdeng and Zhang Tianlin's troops are annihilated, it will maximize the chance for Yang Jiamo to give up the annihilation campaign.
The enemy, return to Ganzhou to aid.
At the same time, Liu Chengzong was also making preparations. Yang Jiamo might not necessarily join the pursuit of Gao Yingdeng. He might be thinking about waiting for him to lead his troops to rescue Cheying, or like him, asking Tang Qi to search the desert for him.
What?
At present, the Tang soldiers have no information about Yang Jiamo, and these situations are uncertain. Liu Chengzong believes that a battle must be avoided as much as possible, but if the soldiers successfully reach Ganzhou, it will be a real attack on the city.
Because even if Yang Jiamo’s location and command strength were unknown, Liu Chengzong’s time could not be wasted.
The battlefield is changing rapidly. The worst situation currently is that Gansu General Yang Jiamo is intercepting Gao Yingdeng, but if it drags on for three to five days, the worst situation will not be this.
To be honest, I have been reading books recently to catch up on updates, switch sources, read aloud with many sounds, and it can be used on both Android and Apple.】
It will be either Hong Chengchou or Yang Jiamo who launches a 600-mile maneuver. Regardless of whether it is Liu Chengzong or Liu Chengyun, they will have to face a sudden increase of more than 20,000 enemy troops. This is a huge pressure that neither of them can bear unilaterally. Therefore, soldiers are very fast, and it is absolutely impossible for Liu Shishi to let Wang Ziyong squat in Suzhou, control the countryside and land, and open up the city internally and externally, all of which require the help of the Sanjie congregation.
In the afternoon of that day, Liu Chengzong's messengers and soldiers rushed to Suzhou with letters to convey their call to Wang Ziyong.
As night fell, Liu Chengzong immediately dispersed the Huben camp, and teams entered the besieged camp in the dark. Later, Wei Qian'er's troops also escaped in an orderly manner, and the two battalions completed the defense change in the quiet night.
In the early morning of the next day, the battalion soldiers led by Wei Qian'er placed Tangqi on the Gobi and drove cautiously towards Luotuo City. Then they joined Mo and Jingbu and continued to advance towards Gaotai Qianhu Station, dragging sand and dust with them.
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Yang Jiamo, who was stationed in Gaotai, didn't need Tangqi at all. The distance was only forty or fifty miles. The residents near Gaotai's Thousand Households were already on tenterhooks. As soon as they approached, the people in the village beat gongs and drums to gather to defend themselves.
The villagers quickly reported the news to Gaotai.
Correspondingly, Wei Qian'er also learned from the people that Yang Jiamo was at Gaotai when he launched his army.
The news quickly reached the ears of Liu Chengzong who was surrounding the car camp. This was undoubtedly a dream come true for him. He immediately gave the order to break out of the camp without hesitation. Then he met Feng Yu and said: "Brother, the siege is under way."
The camp depends on you, Yang Jiamo is at Gaotai, I have to find him."
Feng Rui nodded heavily, clasped his fists and said: "Don't worry, Commander, if they dare to break through, I will fight them."
In fact, these soldiers in the Marshal's Mansion are led by a relatively gentle Liu Chengzong, who leads a group of reckless troops. It is only because the decision-making power is in the hands of Liu Chengzong that they will choose to siege, which uses more troops, takes a long time, and has slow gains but small losses.
Tactics.
After changing the generals and generals of each battalion, and the general's original intention, people actually prefer to attack head on.
Especially Feng Ru.
Feng Lun is a veteran who followed Cao Yao back from Sarhu. He meets two conditions in terms of temperament and experience. First, he knows how the Hou Jin army stormed the car camp; second, he is the most powerful person in the entire marshal's army.
One of the few people who is afraid of hunger.
When hunger comes, others are just afraid of not being able to fill their stomachs, but Feng Rui is afraid of bringing back the memory of running from the Liaohe River to the Yellow River on one human leg.
In the camp, there were four thousand people eating forty days of food and grass.
According to his own opinion, when he saw the level of the car camp, he had to rush.
Now when Liu Chengzong said that he wanted to keep a battalion of his here, all Feng Zong could think about was that he had to reinforce the wooden cart and prepare to storm the camp with cannon fire.
I never expected that even if Liu Shizi left, he would have to do some micro-management before leaving.
Liu Chengzong said: "In that case, you send Mr. Qian to go with me."
"Ah?"
Feng Xun thought, originally there were two battalions surrounding the car camp, so if one battalion was removed at once, why would you transfer one of them, Mr. Sanqian?
Liu Chengzong saw his doubts and pointed to the east and said: "If I walk with the front foot, the car camp will try to break through with the rear foot. They don't know that I am going to fight Yang Jiamo, but they will definitely know that the army is leaving."
"A cavalry soldier from the headquarters of a thousand followed me and stopped at a place where the carriage camp could not be seen. Occasionally, if he was exposed under the eyelids of the lookout at the carriage camp, they would think that I was withdrawing to set up an ambush to stabilize them.
A few days."
After all, you want to sweep the floor later, but before you do it, someone comes and urges you to sweep the floor, and you don't want to do it anymore.
The art of war is a psychology, and its core essence is suspicion. What the enemy doesn't want you to do may not necessarily be the right choice for you, but what the enemy wants you to do must be wrong for you. p>
Originally, the Che Ying wanted to break out, but Liu Chengzong wanted to make the Che Ying mistakenly believe that the Marshal's Army was also expecting them to break out. Once this misunderstanding came true, the chance of the Che Ying taking the initiative to break out would be very low.
Feng Lun listened and felt that this was indeed the truth, so he agreed first, and then asked: "Commander, if they still break through, then I will fight them?"
Liu Chengzong was stunned for a moment, thinking that this was not possible.
There are trenches and earthen fortresses, and the officers and soldiers cannot carry vehicles when they break out. At present, the camp has a lot of grain, grass, supplies, artillery equipment, and it is impossible to leave without tanks.
What's more, if the besieging troops show intention to lure and ambush, they will also convey a very accurate message to the car camp: the besieging troops are very anxious and eager to win.
Therefore, unless the battlefield situation changes drastically and the car camp is informed, they will not take the initiative to break out.
But Liu Chengzong didn't say anything. He said: "If they still break through, my brother will act accordingly. Soldiers and forces are unpredictable. If you can fight, you will fight. If you can't, you will leave."
"Go?"
Facing Feng Yu's doubts, Liu Chengzong nodded naturally: "One battalion cannot encircle another battalion. There are so many of them that they can only be defeated by a single attack. Therefore, when the enemy breaks out, fight or leave, it all depends on the chance of victory for my brother."
No matter how big it is, if the chance of winning is not good, there is no harm in letting him go."
Liu Chengzong did not expect Feng Yu to be able to retain the entire car camp with one battalion, so he did not force others to do anything. Of course it would be best if he could win, but if he won miserably or even lost, there would be no need for a battle based on the current situation.
This car camp is useless. If your throat gets stuck after eating it, you might as well throw it away.
"But I only have one request: they cannot take away the chariots, artillery, and food and grass." Liu Chengzong said confidently: "As long as they are not allowed to take away these, the next time we meet, it will be the time when we will completely annihilate the remaining enemies.
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After receiving such an order, Feng Lun felt extremely relaxed. He clasped his fists and said, "Don't worry, Commander, I will try my best to keep them. Even if I can't keep them, they can't even think about running away with their baggage!"
"I'm relieved."
Liu Chengzong took a deep breath. Although the battle line was now very long, each battalion had found its opponent.
The horn sound of breaking out of camp sounded in the besieged camp. Liu Chengzong looked east, which was the direction of Gaotai Qianhu Residence. Now only he and Yang Jiamo were left.
