Once the Goguryeo people find the right way, the rest will be spent purely on human lives!
Gongsun Xun did not engage in any bloody battle with the opponent. He could see clearly from the stage. After the first fence was dragged open three holes, he immediately issued instructions to Xu Rong, asking the opponent to give up voluntarily.
The first fence.
Of course, the offensive of the Goguryeo people on the first day was just that... After all, the sky was getting dark, and the quality of the Goguryeo soldiers was really not enough to sustain a night battle. If the Han army counterattacked, they might be defeated overnight.
That would be a lot of fun. And Ming Lin Dafu would not make such a mistake, so after destroying the first fence, the Goguryeo people threw away a large number of corpses and retreated directly.
The first day of official fighting ended like this. The casualties of the Han army were almost out of proportion to the casualties of Goguryeo, and the price paid by the Han army was more than that of the fence.
But to be honest, the Goguryeo people have finally mastered the method of dealing with the Han army's defense facilities... As for the problem that this method is bound to cost a lot of casualties, to be honest, the Goguryeo people with extremely sufficient troops are obviously not willing to sacrifice their lives!
In fact, on the second day, the Goguryeo people, who had mastered the countermeasures, even drove away the slaves who were originally used to transport food, and women served as human shields. The wailing sound echoed throughout the battlefield, not to mention the Han army in front of the battle.
Gongsun Xun, who saw this scene from a distance, was a little shaken for a moment.
Thanks to the Goguryeo people's willingness to spare their lives, the second day's battle not only knocked down and dragged away the second fence that the Han army had repaired overnight, but also the first fence in front of the camp wall.
The defendant broke through!
"If this continues, there's no way we can survive another three days!"
Compared with the lower-level soldiers who were immersed in the "big victory", Xu Rong and other senior officers saw it more clearly.
"You're right, Wang Shuzhi and Jian Ju made a lot of shaped fences at the back in advance. We can repair another layer of defense overnight... But so what? If the Goguryeo people don't care about livestock and human lives tomorrow,
This shabby fence can be completely pulled out in half a day, and in the afternoon people can climb up the wall with ladders!"
"With so many Goguryeo people dying, I'm afraid they need a day's rest before they can officially climb the camp wall, right?"
"Even if Ming Lin Dafu orders repairs for one day, it will only delay for one more day. The next day, we will still directly attack the camp wall, and once the camp wall is climbed, we will directly fight hand to hand!"
"That's exactly what it means. Most of the soldiers in the army were excited because the previous two layers of fences were very heavy and the camp walls were stronger than the fences, so they were all excited and thought they had a chance to win... But in fact, how did they know that they could kill so many people before?
It’s all about the cooperation between the camp wall and the fence. The bows and arrows on the camp wall are the main force of killing! Once the camp wall is climbed, it will become a melee battlefield. Archers can no longer be condescending to kill the enemy calmly. By then, our army’s lethality will be
It will be greatly reduced.”
"Actually, our army is mostly cavalry and is not good at defense."
"So what? Can we take the initiative to attack in such a situation? The terrain is too restrictive, and the opposing camp is too close."
"After all, it's just a camp in the valley. The watchtowers and high platforms above are all temporary. The height and thickness of the camp wall itself are far less than that of a serious city wall! And with the unyielding momentum of the Goguryeo people, I am afraid that once
Once you get into a physical fight, you can't last more than two days... Xu Sima's theory of three days is still reasonable."
"Compared to this place, the small camps on the left and right are even more dangerous. Their camp walls are weaker and they are just slightly more advantageous. As for the small camps on the left and right, once they are lost and the big camp is surrounded on three sides, I am afraid that it will not be able to hold on immediately."
"If the left and right camps are lost, what will happen to the two young masters of the Gongsun family? They are still in the second camp and have not come over. Just because of this, believe it or not, I can't go back to Liaoxi again?"
Everyone was silent for a moment.
"Where is the general?" Xu Rong, who was the first to start the discussion after a long time, couldn't help but ask again. "Why haven't you come yet?"
"I'm condoling with the wounded with Wang Hucao." Han Dang, who had just stepped onto the stage, replied frankly. "My young master changed his original tent into a place for the wounded to recuperate, so that's why you and I came here.
Waiting for the military meeting on the high platform."
"It is certainly the style of ancient famous generals to express condolences to the wounded." Xu Rong frowned. "But the current situation..."
"What about the situation at hand?" At this moment, a familiar voice came from the stairs under the high platform, as if it was Gongsun Xun who had returned from condolences to the wounded.
"General!"
"Young Master!"
"Your Majesty!"
"grown ups!"
All kinds of random names immediately rang out.
"Stay here." Gongsun Xun and Wang Xiu appeared on the high platform, actually holding a steaming pottery bowl filled with hot soup. "Did Xu Sima just talk about the situation at hand?"
"Exactly."
"What is the situation at hand?" Gongsun Xun asked seriously after taking a sip of hot soup. "We are all exhausted after two days of hard work, but at this time we should be more careful. I hope Bo Jin will tell the truth."
Xu Rong hesitated to speak... To be honest, he didn't believe that Gongsun Xun, who grew up in the border county, fought a big battle with the Xianbei people, and saw through the Goguryeo ambush before, could not understand the most basic development of the battle situation. He didn't watch it.
Until everyone else shuts up?
To put it bluntly, when things have come to this point, regardless of the current enemy, the generals in front of them are either like a few tribal leaders who have no way out, or they are people like Han Dang who are Gongsun Xun's confidants. Or Xu Rong.
At this time, because my soldiers and horses were mixed with the large army, I was tied to this battle!
In other words, whether intentionally or unintentionally, through this battle, Gongsun Xun has become the leader in this army, and everyone has become afraid of him.
"Let me guess, you are trying to say that our army's fence tactics are useless and we must come up with other countermeasures, otherwise the situation will inevitably be ruined?" Gongsun Xun asked with a smile, but he sat back directly with the hot soup. He was actually already there.
The position where I had been sitting for two whole days was on a pony under the flag of the white horse.
"That's right." Only then did Xu Rong dare to bow and say yes.
"Then do you have any clever ideas?" Gongsun Xun put the pottery bowl of hot soup at his feet, and then asked seriously.
"The enemy is not good at fighting at night, maybe we can attack at night!" Xu Rong first suggested.
"How to attack at night?" Gongsun Xun continued to ask seriously.
"The two battalions are too close to each other, which makes it easier for them to attack us, and naturally it is easier for us to attack them." Xu Rong expressed his thoughts frankly. "The enemy camp is vast and deep but crude and crude, and the enemy's morale is worry-free but of low quality...
…I intend to wait until the mist tomorrow evening, when they have just withdrawn and rested, and attack once. I don’t expect to break the camp or anything, but it would be good to disturb them.”
Gongsun Xun nodded slightly when he heard the words, but then slowly shook his head: "It is right to use offense as defense, but there is no need to deliberately try until the final decision is made or when it is absolutely necessary... The enemy has only just arrived on the third day, so how could he know that he was not prepared?
?No matter how small the unit is, if it is swallowed up by the opponent in turn, it will seriously dampen morale. You can note this for now, but if it is really necessary, it is still feasible."
Xu Rong immediately bowed to accept this recognition.
However, the so-called countermeasures are nothing more than this one, because when Gongsun Xun continued to ask one by one, the answers he got were all the same... They were just to take the initiative, and then because of the difficulty in the day,
It worked, so they were still attacking at night, and they were still using methods like throwing torches around the camp.
To put it bluntly, most of these people, whether Han or Hu, are almost from the northern border counties. They are good at cavalry and are good at attacking but not good at defending. If you ask them to raid and pursue, they will all be able to tell the story.
What can't be said can be said. But if you ask them to think of defensive methods, it is really embarrassing.
"Then let's do it!" Gongsun Xun smiled, making it difficult for anyone to see what he was thinking. "If you have an idea, you can tell me privately or send someone to tell me, but the enemy is facing us, so you still have to
The main thing is to stay on the defensive line."
This was to expel people, and everyone did not dare to stay any longer, so they left one after another.
"The guards will all go down first, and Zibo will stay."
Gongsun Xun suddenly spoke up at this moment, but everyone who turned around and left felt a sense of expectation in their hearts.
"Young Master, do you have something private to say while you are here?" Lou Gui asked curiously after everyone left.
"Private words are no longer private if they are spoken in front of three people." Gongsun Xun couldn't help laughing when he heard this. "Uncle Zi, there should indeed be private words between you and me, but it's not me telling you, but you talking to me.
Let me tell you... let me ask you, in the current situation, the Goguryeo people are obviously going to stick to the stronghold, fight stupidly, and compete with us. If they don't come up with some clever strategies, they are afraid that the situation will really collapse. Shen Zhengnan and Ziheng are not here, you
As a rare scribe in the army, do you have anything to teach me?"
Lou Gui immediately smiled bitterly: "So Young Master, do you think I have something to hide?"
"I saw that you have made great progress, Uncle Zi, so I can't help but have expectations." Gongsun Xun was honest. "But, do you really have no ideas?"
Lou Gui shook his head helplessly at first, but then couldn't help asking: "Compared with the previous two days, I think you seem to be a lot more relaxed now, Shaojun... Could it be that you have already made some plans?"
"Where are these words?" Gongsun Xun immediately laughed again. "The day before yesterday, we saw that the opponent was completely false before the battle. Then we covered our faces with blood and swore to fight the enemy, and our morale was boosted. After the two days of fighting, although there were some hidden worries, the battle situation
After all, it can be called outstanding, so I am naturally in a high mood; and by this afternoon, the fence was completely broken down, leaving only a lone wall, and there is still no solution... The situation is getting worse and worse, how can I become
Is it easier than the previous two days?"
Lou Gui couldn't help but sneer after hearing this: "Young Master, let's not talk about today's events for now. What you said the day before yesterday in front of the battle about the fate of the country of Goguryeo is true and false?"
Gongsun Xun couldn't help but feel embarrassed when he heard this... To be honest, even if he talked about the Goguryeo people in the same way the day before yesterday, he even believed it at one point. After all, the situation in front of Goguryeo, he did think about it.
That makes sense!
However, before he came here, he had specifically inquired about it from his mother-in-law. Instead of dying, Goguryeo gradually grew bigger and became the real overlord of the Liaodong region. It was only a few hundred years later that Goguryeo was as famous as the Han Dynasty.
The Tang Dynasty was destroyed. If not, he would not have valued his opponents so much before!
In other words, Gongsun Xun knew very well that if the word destiny was really mentioned, then Goguryeo would probably be the one with more destiny.
Of course, what Gongsun Xun didn't even know was that his wife was actually full of historical knowledge about the two swords. In history, Goguryeo really declined rapidly after the death of Minglin Dafu and was destroyed.
, but later on, the Goguryeo people took advantage of the hundreds of years of turbulence and division in the Central Plains, successfully restored the country, and then became powerful again... The Goguryeo that my mother called the "Three Conquests of Goguryeo" has the same text as the Goguryeo in front of me.
species, but it is no longer a heritage.
"This matter is probably unwarranted, right?" Although Gongsun Xun was a little embarrassed, he finally managed to regain his composure in the dark night and asked a question instead. "However, in addition to defensive strategies, I have other things.
Ask Uncle Zi for advice."
"Young Master, please speak." Lou Gui said simply.
"You said, if I really have enough countermeasures, I mean if," Gongsun Xun sat in the maza and pointed at the enemy camp in the southeast and asked with a smile. "Then I should put together the countermeasures.
Should we show it out, or should we show it out one by one? Should we show it out from the beginning, or should we wait until the front line is finally exhausted? Which one can be the most effective in destroying the morale of the Goguryeo people?"
"It depends on what Young Master wants to do?" Lou Gui couldn't help twirling his beard and laughing. "Actually, if there are multiple countermeasures, laying them out together or one by one is nothing more than victory or defeat.
It’s just a difference...the former can quickly determine the outcome of the battle, while the latter can kill the enemy more effectively."
Gongsun Xun nodded slightly.
"Sooner or later," Lou Zibo continued with a smile. "If the young master just wants to quickly deal with the enemy in front of you and relieve the difficulties at hand, then naturally you should come up with countermeasures as soon as possible; and if you want the enemy's morale to collapse,
It was out of control, but it should have been revealed later."
"I understand." Gongsun Xun nodded again. "Zibo's analysis is very pertinent."
"Then I think Young Master should have made a decision?"
"Where did I get the decision?" Gongsun Xun couldn't help laughing. "It's as if I really had enough countermeasures after I went out to visit the wounded with Shu Zhi."
"Is there really no young master?" Lou Gui was speechless.
"Didn't Zibo really come up with some additional countermeasures for me?" Gongsun Xun asked instead.
"I really didn't expect it." Lou Gui was honest.
"Then I really don't have any." Gongsun Xun shook his head and laughed. "But I have four thousand reinforcements!"
Lou Guideng was dumbfounded, but excited at the same time: "Is this so?! I just sent a letter to Ziheng the day before yesterday, asking him to call for reinforcements. Why can they arrive today?"
"It's not Ziheng who invited me," Gongsun Xun said frankly with a smile. "It was Shen Zhengnan who asked for it for me from Juteng, the prefect of Xuantu a few days ago. It took a lot of time to assemble it in the past few days, but today
We arrived at the camp at Liaohe Fork in the afternoon. I just received the news while I was down there... They were supposed to arrive tomorrow, but I was planning to let them wait a little longer at Ziheng."
"Well waited!" Lou Zibo couldn't help but said excitedly. "Four thousand reinforcements are enough to reverse the situation. If Ming Lin Dafu had known that our army was not eight thousand, but twelve thousand, there might not have been any.
Dare to fight! And if our army can spend a few more days before sending out reinforcements, I am afraid that the enemy army will collapse instantly... No wonder Shaojun asked me whether we should release them as soon as possible or later, whether we should release them all at once or in batches
Released, there are actually four thousand reinforcements?"
Gongsun Xun was moved in his heart, but he neither denied nor admitted it.
On the other side, Lou Zibo got the correct message, and immediately his heart dropped, and then he turned around and left.
But just halfway through, he suddenly turned back:
"Young Master, I have a plan, which may allow these four thousand soldiers to increase gradually or suddenly appear together. Do you want to hear it?!"
Gongsun Xun couldn't help but raise the corners of his mouth slightly.
————I am the dividing line that has a clear connection————
"To attack an enemy unprepared and to surprise it, the victory of this military strategist cannot be passed down first!" - "Sun Tzu's Art of War. Planning Chapter"
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