He had already wanted to take advantage of his superior strength to avenge his previous humiliation, but was humiliated by Zheng Pu again with women's clothes. Hu Zun's decision to lead his troops to fight the Han army in the field could no longer be changed.
Naturally, Guanqiu Jian had no intention of persuading him.
In order to encourage the soldiers to be more energetic, he opened the wooden box sent by Zheng Pu in front of everyone, and said angrily, "That Scar Pu regards us as women! When my husband is born, he can be killed but not humiliated! Hu! The general and I can't stand it anymore. We will fight to the death the next day and swear to avenge this humiliation! If any of the officers and soldiers dare to die, move to the right and follow me and General Hu to fight the next day. Those who are willing to accept this humiliation should move to the left and stay in the camp the next day to wait for our army. The emperor has said that if a man has a scarred head, he will be made a marquis and a general, rewarded with tens of thousands of gold, and fed to thousands of households. He will be raised high in Luoyang and honored! If you dare to die, encourage them together, and honor your wife!"
All the soldiers were silent for a while, and then they all became angry.
"Fight to the death!"
"Fight to the death!
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No one moves to the left.
In other words, the military spirit is ready!
In mid-spring in the northwest, the dawn breaks especially late.
The sun slowly rises from the mountain ridge, reflecting on the snow that is about to melt but has not yet melted, turning the originally dark gray sky into a fish-white color, and then brewing a beautiful blue morning light, dots of the east horizon. The mountains and grasslands are slowly withdrawing the heavy dark blue sky behind them little by little. When the silvery blue dawn gradually turns to brownish red, when the sunlight turns from reddish to a golden brilliance, it is what makes all things happy. Warmth spread across heaven and earth.
When it fell on the soldiers of Wei State, it ignited the burning passion in the chest and abdomen to fight to the death.
The soldiers of Wei State, who had started cooking at the fifth watch, had by this time lost their faintness after a full meal, and filed out under the supervision of the generals.
Hu Zun personally supervised the five thousand elite troops at the front, and handed over the central dispatching authority to Guanqiu Jian.
It wasn't that his reason was overwhelmed by the huge anger, but that among the sixteen thousand soldiers, only the headquarters he relied on to guard Gaoping City in the past were the most elite.
There is a saying in the Art of War: "The three armies can seize the Qi."
Another saying goes: "When fighting, you will gain momentum in one go, then it will weaken again, and you will be exhausted after three times."
The two armies are in close combat, and the most important thing is the spirit of the front!
Out of fear of Wei's many years of defeat, he could only use his headquarters as a vanguard to inspire other soldiers to fight to the death.
Otherwise, if too few soldiers from other units are used as the vanguard, once they are defeated by the Shu soldiers and their morale is sluggish, the whole army may stop moving forward and lose their fighting spirit.
In this regard, Guanqiu Jian made no excuses.
He felt that in the face of the absolute superiority of troops, if Hu Zun, who was acting as the vanguard, could fight to the death without retreating, there would really be no suspense in this battle.
While the soldiers were preparing food, the scouts sent out overnight returned.
Within a radius of thirty miles, there is no trace of reinforcements from Shu!
This was the unanimous voice of more than thirty teams of scouts.
The people they met in this area, except for the Xiliang cavalry scouts of the Shu army, were only scattered Qianghu herdsmen or Han family survivors who rode in groups of three or two. Not surprisingly, these people were The tribes or Han remnants living in Beidi County were shocked to find that both the Han and Wei Dynasties had entered the Nishui River Valley. In order to confirm whether it would endanger their own tribes or villages, they took the risk to investigate.
No worries about war.
Regarding the deployment of troops, Guanqiu Jian felt a little uneasy.
The infantry of the two Nishu tribes fell in separate camps, about five miles apart from each other. This seemed to be a taboo for military strategists, but in fact it was a hidden secret.
Because the Wei army will inevitably choose one place as the main attack.
For example, according to the principle of capturing the thief first, Hu Zun now takes the camp where Scar Pu Dahu is located as the decisive point of the battle.
In this way, the Wei army will also put most of its troops on Scar Pu's camp.
Regarding the camp here in Jufu, Hu Zun and Guanqiu Jian decided to reserve a force of 5,000 infantry for defense: they would not attack if they did not leave the camp; if they came to rescue Scar Pu, they would reject them. , to buy time for the main force to knock down Scar Pu.
With only five thousand infantry, can they really stop Jufubu?
In the past, Wang Ping and Jufu, who were both against Shu, came out of Xiaoguan Road to harass the Wei army's food route. Xue Ti intercepted it with twice as many troops. As a result of the fierce battle between the two armies in the field, Xue Ti's troops were defeated and returned... ..
This was one of the reasons why Guanqiu Jian felt uneasy.
He was worried that it would take Jufu to break through his rear army faster than Hu Zun's time to break through Scar Pu's camp.
The result of the battle was that the Wei army was attacked from both sides and suffered a morale collapse.
Then, defeated.
Another level of worry is the duel between the cavalry of the two armies.
After the infantry led by them arrived yesterday, the Nishu Xiliang cavalry divided into two groups, one continued northward along the Nishui River Valley, and the other bypassed their camp and watched Yiju County go south.
Yes, Scar Pu was at a disadvantage in terms of military strength, so he divided his forces again.
It also made Guanqiu Jian really guess that he was relying very arrogantly on this battle plan - the Shu army was far more powerful than the Wei army.
Therefore, Wei was forced to divide his troops and attack them.
At any time, the side with the advantage in military strength will be more likely to win.
Those who are good at using troops will do everything possible to use terrain and strategies to force the opponent to divide their troops when they are outnumbered, and then concentrate their forces to "defeat the few with numbers", accumulating small victories into a big victory.
Scar Pu is like this now.
With the Wei State occupying a military advantage, the continuous division of troops forced the Wei Army to divide its troops. Taking advantage of the stronger combat power of the Shu troops, the original disadvantage of the huge disparity between the enemy and ourselves was continuously weakened.
In other words, as long as the number of troops remains unchanged, it will not matter how the troops are divided.
But that's not how it works on the battlefield.
Because it is as solid as a rock, it will fall apart under the force of a huge force; even if it is as hard as gold and iron, it will turn into juice under the influence of countless firewood. On the contrary, no matter how small a rock is, it is still a rock, and no matter how fine the gold and iron are, it will still be a rock. The essence of gold and iron remains unchanged; but if the force of ten thousand is dispersed into a few points, it will not be able to break the rock.
The more powerful Shu soldiers were as strong as a rock, while the Wei army was as powerful as a ten thousand stone.
Stone can be divided, but force cannot.
Based on this, Scar Pu divided the mighty Wei State, which had the advantage in military strength, into pieces.
It is also the chance of victory that he seeks.
Because as long as the Shu army is divided and defeated in one place, it can rush to help the other place to win; and if it wins in two places, it can become a force that sweeps the entire army!
What is dangerous, what is self-defeating, what is extremely arrogant...
It was all premeditated by Scar Pu.
At this moment, Guanqiu Jian also suddenly remembered that when Ban Gu wrote the "Book of Han", he also classified the military schools.
There is a person who is classified as a "strategist of military situation". His tactics are characterized by "the master of situation, thunder and wind, the last to arrive first, the separation and separation of homeland, the change of tactics, and the ability to control the enemy with light attacks."
For example, the former Wei general Zhang Liao was a good general who used this tactic with great proficiency.
In the previous wars between Han and Wei, Scar Pu had always focused on pre-battle planning and rarely personally supervised the troops charging into battle. Therefore, everyone in the Wei state mistakenly thought that he was a "military power planner" rather than a "military situation expert". ”.
