Chapter Fifty-six Ju Shu three steps to respond to the enemy
"A sneeze."
Chen Mu sneezed with a runny nose.
He caught a cold.
Early spring is the season when colds and fevers occur frequently. If your body is already weak, it is natural for you to get sick when you catch a cold.
I feel dizzy. The doctor saw me and prescribed medicine.
But Chinese medicine is slow to take effect. After taking the medicine for two days, I can barely feel comfortable, and I have to continue taking it.
Feeling the runny nose and dizzy brain, Chen Mu regretted why he didn't start exercising as soon as possible.
Even though we know that this is an era where even minor illnesses can kill people, we still retain our old lazy habits. Laziness and cancer can kill people.
I can't deal with government affairs when I'm sick. I've been extremely busy these days. During the spring plowing period, everything in Qi State is in full swing, and all kinds of messy things have to be dealt with.
Fortunately, it took more than ten days to send the recommendation documents from Qi to Luoyang, and it also took more than ten days to reply from Luoyang, so Shiyi had not yet taken office and could help him handle the matter.
After lying in bed and sleeping drowsily all day, Chen Mu woke up in the evening, sweating under the quilt. He finally felt a little more comfortable. He pushed himself up and leaned against the bed. His mind went blank.
, lying in a daze.
Chen Mu actually didn't know how to help Guan Yu out of the siege, but he knew that Ju Shou must have a way.
Because Jushou went there in person, he was a remote OB. In an era without communication means, first of all, he didn't know the enemy's situation, so he definitely couldn't formulate a strategy. Secondly, since Guan Yu was surrounded, he couldn't remotely perform micro-control.
Don't think that you can really win a war thousands of miles away. Even Zhuge Liang, who is so smart and almost a demon, can't do this. Even in modern information wars, the actual battlefield conditions are changing rapidly. Going to the battlefield in person to command changes during the war is far better than sitting thousands of miles away.
The command room kilometers away is much stronger.
Therefore, it is impossible for Chen Mu to go and give instructions to Guan Yu to fight. Now the Qi State is in ruins and government affairs are being dealt with everywhere. There are piles of big and small things. This is the first time that he feels that being an official is not easy.
The people are in all kinds of situations, and everything, no matter how big or small, must be properly arranged. If it weren't for You Shiyi's help, he might have died of exhaustion.
After being dazed for a while, I finally felt a lot more relaxed. I put on my coat and got out of bed and walked around. As soon as I opened the door, a spring breeze blew in and soaked into my heart and spleen. Dian Wei at the door asked: "Zi Gui, are you awake? Not much."
Want to take a break?”
"Liangbi, what day is it now?"
Chen Mu asked.
Dian Wei thought for a while and said, "It's the sixth day of the Lunar New Year."
"How many days have my third brother and the others been there?"
"It's been two days."
"oh."
Chen Mu felt that his mind was much slower.
In fact, when he asked that today was the sixth day of the Lunar New Year, he should have known that he had been there for two days, but he didn't react immediately.
Walking under the pavilion in the courtyard outside the house, it is spring in March, and the flowers in the flowerbeds on the left and right are blooming. There is a tall cypress tree in the courtyard, covering the sky with greenery, reflecting countless silvery mottled colors in the moonlight.
Chen Mu raised his head and looked up at the sky. The stars in the night sky were as bright as the sea. This was an era of dazzling stars and an era full of passionate years.
It would be too embarrassing if he fell down before he even started. Cao Cao and Guo Jia learned from the past experience that the body is the capital of the revolution. You can't lose your life here because of laziness.
Thinking of this, Chen Mu turned to Dian Wei and said, "Liangbi, go and tell Shiyi and ask him to send someone to Yanzhou Peiguo and invite a man named Hua Tuo to come over."
"only."
Dian Wei took the order and left.
Um.
It is necessary to exercise, and it is even more necessary to find a miracle doctor.
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After Jushu entered the city, he immediately began to understand the situation between the enemy and ourselves.
Now judging from the superficial situation, Zhang Rao and other Beihai Yellow Turbans gathered more than 300,000 people, and their momentum was like a rainbow.
Guan Yu's army was much inferior not only in numbers but also in momentum.
At the beginning, Chen Mu brought two thousand elites from Jinan. Apart from these troops, the other fifty thousand were no different from the Yellow Turbans outside the city. They could be called a mob.
no way.
The sources of these people are mainly powerful slaves and Guan Hai's original Yellow Turban soldiers.
Compared with the elites of the five schools of the Northern Army led by Lu Zhi, they were in the sky and on the ground. Otherwise, Lu Zhi would not have led tens of thousands of troops and defeated Zhang Jiao's 200,000 troops.
When the general is strong and the enemy is small, these people are invincible in a favorable battle. Once the enemy is outnumbered, their morale will plummet and their will to fight will also become very poor.
This is also the reason why Guan Hai proposed to fight out of the city, but Guan Yu rejected it, because he was too aware of the combat effectiveness of his troops.
The enemy was six times more numerous than him. Standing on the city tower, Guan Yu stroked his beard and asked Jushu: "Your Majesty, do you have any clever plans to defeat the enemy?"
Jushou looked at the hundreds of thousands of troops under the city and chuckled: "I have several strategies to defeat the enemy's army."
"oh?"
Guan Yu asked curiously: "What's the plan?"
"I observed the enemy before and found that Zhou Tao's troops in the west city were scattered and had fewer troops. We can use the enemy's exhaustion strategy to use the mobility of the cavalry to attack out of the city every day for many days in a row. The enemy will definitely be exhausted, and then suddenly
If all the army is gone, the Zhou Tao tribe will inevitably collapse, and they will be destroyed all the way."
Jushu was full of confidence.
Zhou Tao only had 50,000 men, and their combat effectiveness was extremely low. When they entered the city yesterday, a thousand cavalry were like no one, so you can know that they are facing the enemy. If Guan Yu's 50,000 men and Zhou Tao's 50,000 men fought with real swords and spears,
Fight, I'm afraid they will be annihilated soon.
However, due to the troops and horses in the other three cities, the two sides were only a few miles apart. Hundreds of thousands of Yellow Turban troops could gather in an instant. Once the stalemate lasted for more than half an hour, it would be very disadvantageous for Guan Yu.
However, if Ju Suo's strategy of tiring the enemy was used and harassed for several more days, Zhou Tao's troops would be exhausted and their combat effectiveness would inevitably be even lower.
By the time the army is fully deployed, it won't take even half an hour. I'm afraid it will collapse and disintegrate in an instant.
Guan Yu asked: "Only defeat one side?"
Jushu said: "Guan Hai said that the enemy army is deeply divided and is not united as one. If they are defeated all the way, it will be more conducive to division. General, think about what Guan Cheng, Li Bo, Wang Dan and others will think if Zhou Tao is defeated.
?”
Guan Yu pondered: "Are you afraid that you will be annexed by Zhang Rao?"
"good."
Jushou laughed: "So the strategy of weakening the enemy is only the first step. The key is to differentiate and win over."
"Um."
Guan Yu nodded: "Is there any more?"
Jushu continued: "Soldiers are also deceitful. Therefore, they can show their inability to use it, and use it to show them that they don't use it. They can lure them with benefits, and get close to them and leave them. We can wait a few more days. As long as we persist for half a month, the enemy will have food and grass.
It will inevitably consume a huge amount of money and exhaust us physically and mentally. If we offer inducements to the enemies outside the city and drive a wedge between them inside, the enemy army will inevitably collapse and be defeated in one battle."
Guan Yu didn't have much food and grass. His 50,000-strong army had to eat 8,000 shi every day, and the city was besieged outside. Chen Mu wanted to help him transport food and grass, but it was difficult to transport it in. He had brought more than 100,000 shi of food and occupied Pingshou City alone.
The hundreds of thousands of stones seized will probably be used up in about a month.
But the consumption outside was six times that of Guan Yu's. If he ate 50,000 shi of grain every day, it would be 1.5 million shi in one month. Even the mountain of grain would be eaten up. If he continued to consume like this, Guan Yu would be sure to win.
The most important thing is that it is now the time of spring plowing, and the Yellow Turban soldiers have no fighting spirit and just want to go back to farming. Not only are they not growing food, but they are consuming their own food every day.
This is also a big burden for the Yellow Turban soldiers. Therefore, the anti-war sentiment of the soldiers at the bottom is actually very high. It depends on whether Jushou will take advantage of it.
But it is obvious that Jushou did seize this opportunity and made a three-step plan to deal with the situation at hand.
After hearing what he said, Guan Yu immediately said: "Okay, I will follow my father's words."
That night, Guan Yu sent troops to attack Zhou Tao's camp.
Zhang Fei had experience in night raids and led a thousand cavalry into the battle with torches. He kept throwing torches outside the camp and setting fires everywhere.
Although not many people were killed, there was great chaos in Zhou Tao's camp, and Zhang Rao, Li Bo, Wang Dan and other troops were also disturbed. Except for Guan Cheng, who had some military literacy, everyone else was in chaos at night and even blew up the camp.
During the daytime of the next day, Zhou Tao gathered his troops and found that thousands of soldiers had fled in one night. Nearly a thousand soldiers died due to the roar of the camp, nearly a thousand were burned to death, and hundreds were trampled to death.
At night, Zhou Tao took precautions and arranged his manpower. But this time the cavalry no longer charged, but went out of the city to beat gongs and drums and make noise.
Zhou Tao took the trouble and sent troops to attack. But the cavalry came and went like the wind. They would leave as soon as the enemy came out. After all, the camp could not be set up under the city wall. There was a buffer zone of two or three miles on both sides, which was enough for the cavalry to run. Zhou Tao
Tao's men simply couldn't catch up.
This is why in the cold weapon age, cavalry was the king of war.
Not only because of the crushing power of heavy cavalry against infantry, but also because of the mobility of cavalry, a light cavalry who is skilled in bow and horse can cause very high damage to infantry.
On the fourth or fifth day, when Guan Yu and Jushou went up to the city tower again, they saw that Zhou Tao's army outside the city had collapsed. The soldiers and horses withdrew overnight, leaving only a mess and the remaining camps were still smoking.
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"this......"
Guan Yu was speechless. How many days had he been harassing his army of 50,000 people before it collapsed like this?
Jushou couldn't laugh or cry and said: "It seems that I still overestimated this Zhou Tao. A rabble is a rabble, and there is no fighting spirit at all."
"So what do we do now?"
Guan Yu asked.
According to the plan, the enemy should have been harassed for a month and a half, and then the tactics of differentiation and co-optation would be used when the enemy's pressure on food and fodder was increasing.
It was only half a day after the battle started, and the enemy troops were completely defeated, which exceeded both of their expectations.
Jushou thought for a while, smiled and said, "Wait."
"wait?"
"That's right, wait two more days."
"What's the reason?"
"The defeat of Zhou Tao's troops will inevitably cause anxiety among Wang Dan, Li Bo, Guan Cheng and others, and their internal disagreements will soon be exposed."
Jushou has a well-thought-out plan, and he is best at controlling people's hearts. In a few days, it will be time to implement the differentiation plan.