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Chapter 165 Surprise victory

In the city of Jiyin County, Caozhou, there are military camps that stretch for more than ten miles outside the city. The flags in the camp are like forests, and the camp tents are rising and falling one after another. Looking at the top of the city, it looks like waves. The central army tent, the prime minister, and the Shu king Yuchi Dun were discussing matters with the generals.

Yuchi Dun had to leave Xuanhu sadly and return to the north due to illness at the beginning of the year. It has been more than half a year since then, and the situation has worsened. He prepared his troops and gathered his army to move south again, and his opponent was still Yuwen Wen.

The army in his hand was gathered up with all his strength. Once defeated, he would no longer be able to summon new troops.

The current Yuchi family has only four armies left, one stationed in Yecheng and guarded the capital area (the Xiangzhou area where Yecheng is located); the other was led by Yuchi Qin and stationed in Pujin to restrain Guanzhong and Shaanxi, while also covering the western wing of Luoyang.

One was led by Yuchi Shun, confronted Yuwenming in Zhengzhou and protected the eastern wing of Luoyang; the other was led by Yuchi Dun, who wanted to deal with Yuwen Wen, who was entrenched in Xiaohuang, Bozhou.

One attack and one defense reminded Yuchi Dun of last year, when he led the emperor to personally attack Yuwen Wen, who was entrenched in the capital of Xuanhu, Yuzhou Prefecture. As a result, he used up all the methods and could not take down the city after a long time. In the end, Yuwen Wen reversed the situation, resulting in Shao Ling's defeat.

After that defeat, it was thanks to Yuchi Shun who led his troops to put out the fire and stopped the situation from deteriorating in time. Yuchi Dun knew that if he was defeated this time, no one could put out the fire, and the situation in Henan could no longer be restored.

And his old opponent Yu Wenwen would probably use the same trick again, turning Xiao Huang into the second Xuan Hu, and using his iron wall to deal with him, which made his army's morale depression depressed and exhausted. After he was exhausted, he took the opportunity to launch a sneak attack and make a big reversal.

Will Yuchi Dun let Yuwen Wen use the same trick again?

Absolutely not!

At this moment, Yuchi Dun and the generals surrounded the map paved on the ground, planning the next combat strategy.

Yu Wenming is now attacking Changshe. More than 200 miles east of Changshe is Xiaohuang, Bozhou where Yuwen Wen is located. Xiaohuang is slightly northeasterly to the east. Pengcheng, Xuzhou Prefecture, is now occupied by the troops of Yang Su, the chief marching manager of the enemy.

The three places are connected into a line, and to the south of this line are Huaixi and Huaibei areas controlled by the Yuwen family.

To the north of this line, Xuchang is the stationed place of Yuchishun's army at the west end, and in the middle it is Zuocheng, Caozhou Prefecture. Under the control of the imperial court (Yecheng Court), Yuchi Dun's army was about to arrive in Zuocheng soon.

At the east end is Yizhou under the jurisdiction of Qingzhou General Administration, which is also under the control of the imperial court.

Three points to three points. As long as Yuchi Dun located in the middle of the road breaks through Xiao Huang, the Huaibei area of ​​Yuwen family will be cut off in half, and Yang Su located in Pengcheng will be cut off from the rear. Yuchi Dun's army will then march westward and can join forces with Yuchi Shun to attack Yu Wenming.

As long as you defeat Yu Wenming again, all the territory that Yu Wen's previous seized would be spit out soon, so the army under Yuchi Dun was responsible for breaking the deadlock.

If King Zhu (King of Xiyang) Yuwen Wen can defeat King Zhu (King of Xiyang), it can break the myth of being undefeated, and even if he can be killed, it will have a significant effect on the morale of the Yuwen family.

If Yuwen Wen shrank in Xiaohuang City and turned into an iron-shelled turtle, Yuchi Dun would no longer be siege the city because the situation would be different.

Last year, Yuwen Wen guarded Xuanhu, and was alone in defending the lonely city. Most of the surrounding areas were not under its control, so he was able to defend the city wholeheartedly without caring about it.

It is different now. The Huaibei area south of Xiao Huang is the territory of Yuwen family. He cannot let go, otherwise the official cavalry will attack everywhere, and the Huaibei area will be in a mess. Xiao Huang is just helping to turn the situation around.

Yuchi Dun decided that if Yuwen Wengui shrank Huang, he would send troops to siege the city and stare at the other side while he would divide his troops westward and join forces with Yuchi Shun to attack Yu Wenming. As long as Yu Wenming is solved, the situation will be opened.

Will Yuwen Wen be so stupid that he concentrates his troops to defend Xiao Huang and let Yu Wenming deal with two opponents alone?

It shouldn't be so, so the other party may have to find a way to fight to win with some strange tactics, which is commonly known as the surprise victory.

The battle in which Yuwen Wen defeated Yuchi Youqi was thrown into the battlefield, which was simply unpredictable, so no one dared to make a conclusion whether the other party would have other strange tactics this time.

Thinking of the methods Yuwen Wen used to guard Xuanhu and combining the man's consistent performance in fighting, Yuchi Dun believed that the other party would be very likely to use the same trick again, trying to lure him into a decisive battle, and then find a way to win a surprise.

The military strategy says: Anyone who fights with the right combination will win with the right combination. It means that the right soldiers will resist the front, stabilize the front line, and use surprise soldiers to break through the flanks to achieve victory. Yuwen Wen seems to like to use "shock soldiers". Yuchi Dun feels that the other party will definitely be addicted after he has been enjoying the sweetness in succession.

Just like gambling, if a gambler always takes a gambler and wins all the time, then the gambler will inevitably have a great increase in confidence and think that God will protect him from everything, so in the next round of gambling, he will still bet all his bets without hesitation.

Therefore, Yuchi Dun felt more and more that Yuwen Wen was very likely to be confident, arrogant and continued to choose to win by surprise. The so-called arrogant soldiers will be defeated, which is the opportunity for the official army.

In response to the possible arrangements of the other party, Yuchi Dun and the generals of various divisions began to countermeasures in order to take countermeasures. The other party should have known the news that the official army went south. So if you want to win a surprise, you can only adopt the following tactics.

First, we send light cavalry to detour day and night, taking advantage of the army's unattended attention to launching night attacks, or attacking the food roads and setting fire to the food.

Second, Yuwen Wen divided his troops to defend Suiyang, using this as bait to attract the official army to attack, and he gathered his troops and launched a sneak attack from a certain direction.

Suiyang is the capital of Liang County, Bozhou, located a hundred miles south of Zuocheng, Caozhou Prefecture, and more than 100 miles north of Xiaohuang, Bozhou Prefecture. It is the northern gateway to Xiaohuang. The northern army goes south to attack Lianghuai. Suiyang is a must-see place for the army in the middle.

If Yuwen Wen divided his troops to defend Suiyang, the official army must take down the city before continuing to attack Xiao Huang. Then, according to this person's moral character of using troops likes to "win unexpectedly", it is very likely to launch a sneak attack while the official army attacks Suiyang with all its might.

The troops responsible for the sneak attack may be Yang Su, who was entrenched in Pengcheng, or the "shock soldiers" carefully prepared by Yuwen Wen. The other party may even be jealous and abandon the Chen army in Huainan and ignore it, and concentrate most of the troops under his command to implement this "surprise victory" strategy.

Therefore, Yuchi Dun believed that his side must consider Yuwen Wen's "gambler mentality". When estimating the troops on his hands, he must not think that Yuwen Wen could not do his best because he had to be on guard against the Chen army in Huainan.

If the opponent abandons Suiyang, the official army will take steady steps and advance southward slowly. Even if they attack Xiao Huang later, they cannot relax their vigilance. This may lead to the decisive soldiers everywhere and are easily defeated by the opponent one by one.

This problem is not a big problem for the official army, because the official army has many cavalry and a large range of movement. Whether it is to divide troops to guard the periphery or chase and fight with enemy cavalry, it is not a problem.

Generally speaking, the daily combat range of cavalry is one hundred miles. If the official army surrounds Suiyang or Xiao Huang, then the movements within the 100 miles cannot escape the eyes of the generals. Yuwen Wen wants to use the city as bait to win a surprise victory, which is difficult to do.

The military controversy lasted for an hour. When it was about to end, an envoy sent by the governor of Caozhou reported that the Rangers' siege had learned that the enemy troops entrenched in Xiao Huang had already divided their troops to Suiyang north. The army was quite large and seemed to be trying to defend Suiyang.

Yuchi Dun smiled when he heard this: "Oh, King Zhu, who likes to win by surprise, has started to bet."
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