Beep, beep, beep, the firewood burning in the bonfire at night attracts mosquitoes and moths to commit suicide, and the air is filled with a temperature similar to mugwort.
In the temporary military camp, a group of "rebel" officers, all wearing shorts and shorts, lit spermaceti and held a meeting there.
"The Bai Judou clan is extraordinary."
Touching his head, Li Jie felt a little unmotivated, "Today, I continued to lure the enemy and made arrangements everywhere, but I only managed to kill Dou's front army of three to four thousand men. The people leading the army on the other side are extremely cautious, and they are not a fuel-efficient lamp."
At this time, Commissioner Li missed the crocodile man a little. The brave man was doing well, but the Yi Cong was actually doing well during the chaotic battle during the day. Yi Cong obviously couldn't let go.
The adaptability gap is too big, maybe it's the amount of training, maybe it's the momentum, in short, something is missing.
Luring the enemy deep is a troublesome thing. If you want to preset the battlefield, the difficulty level is very high. Basically, ambush battles are rarely successful.
The number of guides and scouts sent by the Bai Judou clan was more than that of Li Jie, not less.
You must know that the Baiju Doushi still fights locally and is quite familiar with the Dabie Mountains.
The great thing about a top foreman is not that he can lead his brothers to eat meat when the market is good, but that when the market is bad, he can still lead them to eat.
The foreman of the Bai Ju Dou family is absolutely awesome.
"General, the main force of the Dou family has not been lost. What should we do next?"
Jiang Wen regretted that the troubles of fighting in mountainous areas are the same for both warring parties. Unless there is a strategic goal and the scheduled decisive battle circle must be reached within the specified time, then at this time, the checkpoints on the road must be overcome quickly
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If there is no such urgent need, no matter what the barrier is, just go around it.
What Jiang Wen was thinking about before was to build a defense line and use defense instead of attack.
The idea is good, but it doesn't fit Li Jie's current situation.
Commissioner Li's current "commissioner" is still relatively weak. There are not many people in Jianghuai who really obey him.
Adding up all the miscellaneous things, only one of the Six Kingdoms can be considered reliable, and maybe there are only two people, the Young Master Ba and the old uncle of the Six Kingdoms, and the family forces behind them.
If you want to fully establish your reputation as a commissioner of the JAC Administration, you have to run the place for 35, 678 years and bring benefits to the people below, otherwise it won't work.
"We fought during the day, do you have any conclusions?"
Li Jie didn't answer the question and looked at the captains who participated in the battle this time.
Jiang Wu, who had been silent all this time, turned sideways and said, "General, from what I can see from my subordinates, the strength of Dou's soldiers is not as good as ours."
"That's right. When he was pretending to be defeated, in order to arouse Dou's fierceness, the archers succeeded repeatedly. This is the first time I have seen this kind of situation."
The special individual soldier advantages in special terrain and the amount of daily training are fully reflected at this time.
I don’t know about their combat quality, but at least there is a clear gap in personal physical fitness.
As a righteous soldier, it is necessary for the rebels to run every day. In terms of endurance, there is no need to worry at all. The weakest ones have been eliminated long ago and are not qualified to join the ranks of righteous soldiers, let alone righteous soldiers.
"The mountainous area is complex, and Dou Shi is familiar with the terrain. Our army has just arrived, and now it has only explored the surrounding three to five miles. Now that Dou Shi is frustrated, he must be cautious. If he wastes time and effort here, the gain will outweigh the loss."
There are too many places where the gains outweigh the losses. The supplies they can use in the mountainous areas are more or less, but one thing is that they do not have enough manpower to supplement them. But the Dou clan is different. The guides from the Six Nations have already said that the Dou clan can use
The Jingman tribes "borrowed" people, and they could also "recruit" people from the Ying family, so their prestige was not on the same level.
"Then run them to death!"
Jiang Wu's eyes were intense, and he looked up at his colleagues and Li Jie, "Break them into pieces and set up a flag at a high place. When attacking soldiers, they should fight and then retreat. Fight in small groups and try to kill them."
Their advantage is that they have good physical strength and endurance. As long as they run and the opponent chases them, someone will definitely fall behind. If someone falls behind, they can form a larger force to fight against the smaller ones. It may not be that the large force has too many, but it may only be five against three.
Eight against six.
But in this case, having more people is an advantage. They are all strong and strong. Unless they are sharpshooters, they will not have a big effect.
But when it comes to archery, righteous soldiers, and righteous followers, many people still change their profession to the "Crossbow Formation".
"There are many skilled archers in the Chu State. Among the Bai Ju Dou family, there must be strong men."
"Most of the sharp archers are in Yingdu. Doctors who are away from home rarely have sharp archers to help them. Most of the sharp archers of Chu are famous generals themselves."
Jiang Wen knew a little bit about these things, but it was still troublesome to think about it. When entering the mountainous area, the disadvantages of an archer were obvious, but at the same time, the advantages were also great.
After entering a specific environment, such as a steep slope and Shaolin trees and strange rocks, the one running away is equivalent to a stationary target, and an archer with more training can easily hit it.
So at this moment, Jiang Wen was thinking about two issues, one was how to outrun the Chu people, and the other was how to avoid becoming a target for the archers.
"How many short spears did we bring when we came out this time?"
Li Jie suddenly asked.
This question immediately perked up the captains. Although the best troops with short spears are actually the crocodile men and brave men, the righteous soldiers and Yi Cong also have short spear training, but they are not as good as the crocodile men and brave men who have been trained since childhood.
The skills they bring are different. The righteous man and the righteous follower will be equipped with the spear throwing weapon.
It is said to be a spear thrower, but it is actually a belt that forms a force arm to increase the throwing stroke.
There is also a spear thrower, which is in the shape of a wooden cane with an arc-shaped groove at the end to facilitate the stability of the spear tail. This spear thrower was used by Commissioner Li when he was still the foreman, and he once picked up a felled tree.
I learned the work from the natives.
Later, he was detained for more than a month for illegally harvesting wood without a license before returning to China.
But I finally gained something, such as learning useful knowledge.
Even though we were near the rainforest at that time, Foreman Li was hunting with a domestically produced 56-and-a-half. Although I don’t know why there were 5-6-and-a-half there... but it was 10,000 times more powerful than the indigenous spear-throwers.
At present, there are no five or six half, but there are some spear throwers. In addition, the short spear has been modified recently, and the armor-breaking ability has been greatly increased. The advantage of fighting in mountainous areas has suddenly become obvious.
"There are four thousand short spears."
The captain of the Yicong Baggage Brigade in charge of military supplies responded. He was familiar with this kind of stuff, and there was no need to look up the information.
"One person with two spears can equip four brigades. If the brigade is expanded, it will be two brigades."
Li Jie rubbed his chin, "Time doesn't wait for me, I'll try it tomorrow. If it doesn't work, I'll retreat. Instead of spending time with the Chu people in the mountains, I'd rather fight a defensive war."
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Fighting a city defense battle is a secondary option. If it is difficult to fight a city defense battle, then retreat, leave Huangcheng and go to Baiyi or Liaocheng.
Relying on the advantages on the water and relying on the quantity and quality of the boats, Dou Shiqian can also be stunned.
It's just that the idea at the beginning was to win quickly, but now that quick victory is not possible, we have to make imperfect plans.
When Li Jie was thinking about how to torture the Chu people's nerves, Bai Ju Doushi's camp was equally solemn. Although it was claimed to be a small setback, after all, there were three or four thousand former soldiers and horses, and there were many armored men. Such a loss was already considered a serious loss.
Big defeat.
Where did this happen? We had just entered the Dabie Mountains and had the home field advantage. However, before we even passed Xiguan, we lost three to four thousand of the front army. How could we not shock Dou Shi?
At this moment, although the fighting master looked solemn, he was quite worried about the outcome of this battle.