Chapter 104: Deploying troops
The variables really came very quickly. The Han army actually deviated from the direction as they walked. This not only surprised Huo Hai, who was nervously harvesting food, but also made Huo Hai think of a plan to break the enemy.
The advantages of the Han army are that they have excellent weapons, high combat effectiveness, and are organized and disciplined, and can basically obey orders.
Their weakness is that they are now forced to divide into three shares, and there are only more than 20,000 people per share.
If Huo Hai could concentrate Zhang Bao, Zhang Liang, and Heishanzhai's troops and defeat them one by one with an absolute numerical advantage, even if they defeat one of them, then the entire offensive and defensive situation may change.
"Chu Yan, you go back to Heishan in person. Within five days, you will lead 5,000 infantry soldiers to a place fifty miles west of Guangzong City and stand by. Are you sure you can do it?"
Upon hearing this, Chu Yan unconsciously touched his butt. It was at least 600 miles away from Heishan Village. If he wanted to get more time for the brothers in the village to march, he could only travel day and night, go back at a speed of 600 miles, and travel 600 miles in one day. Even a late-stage expert like him, the cocoon on his butt would probably be worn out.
"If we can mobilize all the carriages and horses of the transportation team, it's not impossible, but will it be useful to bring five thousand people here?" Chu Yan said for a moment.
Now that the Black Mountain Army under his command is ruthless, he looks down on the loose organization of the Yellow Turban Army and is no longer on the battlefield. According to his estimate, if Wang Dang leads 10,000 infantrymen from Heishan Village to participate in the war, he might be able to defeat the 20,000 infantrymen in the court.
As for the speed of the march, he was not worried. Since the business of the Su and Zhang families on the grassland has not stopped, the number of livestock in Heishan Village is quite large, and all infantry can actually travel in double-horse carriages. In Hebei, where the horse is flat, not only can the march speed reach more than 150 miles a day, but all soldiers can also wear heavy armor and bring enough supplies.
Don’t ask why there are so many carriages in Heishan Village. When the two million people don’t do farm work, they are all doing production. Not only did they quickly build the houses in the village, but they also made all kinds of production and tools.
Things like the transport carriage have long been launched under the guidance of Huo Hai and the continuous experiments of craftsmen. Not to mention that only one thousand such transport carriages are needed to carry 5,000 people, even 3,000 transport carriages can be pulled out for you in minutes in the copycat.
Moreover, the Heishan Village practices emergency gatherings almost every day. Unlike the soldiers from other places, they need a long time to prepare before the war. They can complete equipment, food loading, weapons, armor, medicine, etc. within half an hour, and line up to go out of the village. This is also the reason why Chu Yan is confident that he will take them five hundred miles away in about four days.
Seeing that Chu Yan had questions, Huo Hai quickly explained to him, "Of course it is useful. The Yellow Turban Army is a gun without a gun. When our brother comes, this gun has a sharp gun head.
In addition, if the brothers who can ride horses can directly let them ride horses, all we have to do is to unexpectedly push one of them before the imperial army has joined forces to push us together, so the faster they come, the better."
"Okay, I'll go there! But if Wang Dang comes too, who will the defense of the copycat be handed over?" Chu Yan asked again.
"Haven Mr. Guo is back? Let all the lieutenants of the villages listen to his dispatch for the time being!" Huo Hai thought for a while.
What Heishanzhai lacks is actually not the middle and low-level generals who lead troops, but the lack of smart command. At present, in the copycat, Guo Tu is definitely an intellectual responsibility, and it is not appropriate to hand it over to anyone else.
What Huo Hai said, Chu Yan did it naturally. After learning with Zhang Ning and Huo Hai for a while, he already knew the importance of his brain. Now, he has begun to get used to thinking to solve problems.
After Chu Yan set off, Huo Hai recruited Deng Fei, a captain of the Explorer Team, to come over and ask him to send a letter to Zhang Ning in Guangzong City.
Now her injuries have basically recovered, and she can bring the elite soldiers in the city to attack suddenly.
The last group of messengers, Huo Hai, was naturally sent to Zhang Bao. Zhu Jun's troops may take six days to get to the place. Huo Hai must strictly block the time within five days. The thinking mode of precisely blocking time alone has already surpassed the thinking of most generals in this era.
Only Chu Yan, Wang Dang and Zhang Ning who trained all the way in Heishanzhai can understand this kind of thinking.
After the strategy was formulated, the next step was to concentrate on harvesting food. Don’t think that Huo Hai just used his sickle to cut food. The fields outside the city were all from the great gentry in the city. When Zuo Ci could ride a crane into the city, cutting the food from his land was a science.
Those who have business relationships with Zhen Guo, Su and Zhang's four families only need to say hello to Zuo Ci, and Huo Hai will not cut off his family's food. Those who fund the imperial army to fight the Yellow Turban Army, I'm sorry, we will cut off your family and lay the leads of division among the various families, which will be of great benefit to the future.
After all, even if you do business, you have to find a group of people to cooperate and earn money from another group of people.
His move quickly stirred up the storm in the city. Those who had been harvested from the fields soon became unbalanced and began to hate the families that had not suffered losses. Although most families that had not suffered losses were because Huo Hai had too few people and had no time to harvest their families' food.
But who knows what's wrong with it?
This is the effect of Zuo Ci walking around the city. In fact, he did not contact several families, but just let everyone know that Heishanzhai did not grab the food of the family that cooperated with him, which was a rumor spread.
After that, the families who had previously actively supported the logistics of the army were not so strong. Families that were not harvested were afraid that they would jump too much, and the black mountain bandits would cut their own food. Families whose grains were cut were not enough this year, and they would reserve some food for their own households and were reluctant to leave their food.
These quietly happened, which made Li Yi, Zi Xu, Guan Lu and others in the city wonder. Unexpectedly, this strange man from heaven was actually a person who could use conspiracy methods. Not only did he not change his luck, but he made the hexagram of the Han army even more dangerous.
They could only keep calling out divinations to see the good and bad of the Han army, because this ability to predict actually has some disadvantages. Even if they knew that the Han army was dangerous, they would have no way to change it.
After the two consecutive days of strong attacks ended, Cao Cao and Yuan Shao felt that they should take a break because they saw that every day there were grain trucks delivering food to the Yellow Turban Army camp. The morale of the Yellow Turban Army did not decline due to more than 10,000 casualties.
Moreover, the food was not sent by Jifeng Cavalry, but the Yellow Turban Army that had gone out of the Yellow Turban Army's village before.
This made them wonder. There was no news of the Yellow Turban Army siege from Handan City. Why did the Yellow Turban Army transport the grain from its camp out and then transport it back?
Cao Cao firmly believed that this was a plan to tempt them to attack, but after Yuan Shao went to Xinye City for inquiries, he soon learned the reason. It turned out that Zhu Jun's army, who was rushing here, was trapped in Huo Hai's maze. He used insects to locate it, and even hollowed out the food of the Yellow Turban Army, making the food they robbed in Wei County vain.
The Yellow Turban Army should have known about the insect Gu, but instead used a plan to lead the wrong direction of Zhu Jun's army to avoid Dazhai being attacked from both sides.
After understanding the context of this matter, Cao Cao naturally regretted missing the opportunity and should have sneaked into the Yellow Turban Army and transferred the troops to Handan City.
Han Fu accused him and Yuan Shao of missing out on the fight and failed to destroy the Yellow Turban Army's food in one battle and won a great victory.
But the three of them did not argue too much about this matter, because the fighter jets may be fleeting at the moment. They only need to cut off the food supply of the Yellow Turban Camp to make Zhang Bao's troops collapse.
As for Zhu Jun's march direction, they kept the same agreement very tacitly. If he could surround the Yellow Turban Army's granary, then the credit for breaking Zhang Bao's camp will definitely be the three of them.
After nightfall, more than three thousand cavalrymen, Yan Liang, Wen Chou, Pan Feng and Zhang He were the main generals, and they left the camp. The cavalry brigade had just walked out of the camp for twenty miles and was divided into four groups. Among them, Yan Liang and Wen Chou led thousands of cavalry, Pan Feng and Zhang He led six hundred cavalry each from four directions toward Handan City. Their target was obviously the Yellow Turban Army's grain transport team, and they were going to attack the rhythm of sneak attacks.
The next morning, the food transported to the camp was already ready in the Yellow Turban Army camp fifty miles outside Handan City, but it did not mean to load a vehicle and send it out of the camp.
"Old immortal said, there is only three things. We sent food to the camp two days ago, but the Han army did not come to intercept us. We will definitely intercept us today. Therefore, we do not transport food today. Everyone hides the crossbows on them. Once an enemy attacks, they will hide in the carriage and shoot in a concentrated manner." Guo Zhen patted the solid box lane.
This kind of car was built by Huo Hai when he was in Julu. Now there are hundreds of cars, which are good things to restrain the cavalry charge.
I heard that the enemy would attack the convoy today, so the Yellow Turban soldiers who transported food were naturally very nervous. However, they soon became furious again because a team of soldiers wearing black mountain uniforms came. They were the wounded soldiers of the Rapid Cavalry sent to the Yellow Turban Army by Huo Hai. Now their injuries have basically been cured, with more than 300 people, and they usually follow Yu Ji to listen to them.
Soon, these storm knight soldiers got on the box trucks in groups and became addicted to their bodies. After they all got on the truck, the soldiers of the grain transport team were immediately relieved, because the people hiding in the car were all things that made the peak internal generals fear, such as the talisman arrow crossbow.
As Huo Hai said, the Yellow Turban Army was just a wooden stick without a spearhead. Only with the spearhead of the Black Mountain Army was powerful. Soon, they went out of the camp and began to pretend to send food to the Yellow Turban Army camp.
Less than thirty miles away, they heard the sound of horse hooves, saying that cavalry was coming.
It is impossible for a carriage to run over a galloping war horse. After all, there is a big gap between load and support, and there is also a big gap in the quality of horses. It is impossible for a good horse to fall into a cart for pulling.
Therefore, Guo Zhen, who led the team, directly reached out and clenched his fists, signaling the team to move slowly.
Soon, a cavalry appeared in front of them. Looking at the flag, it should be Yan Liang, a subordinate of Yuan Shao. Guo Zhen, who was a little nervous, immediately ordered most of the soldiers to hide in the box carts, and connect the carts to form a wall, and cross the road. He himself led the cavalry to hide behind the box carts, and acted as if he wanted to escape back to the grain camp at any time.
"Hahaha, when the Yellow Turban thieves saw us coming, they were so scared that they ran away with their heads. Everyone followed me to kill them and directly killed them." Yan Liang pointed at the front with a big knife.
The team transporting grain was no more than 3,000 people, and he had a thousand cavalry under him. In terms of number of people, it was not much smaller than the opponent. The most important thing was that there was no strong general in the Yellow Turban Army that could match him. He had the confidence to kill the opponent with the sword in his hand.
However, at this time, his deputy general Zhang Nan reminded him, "Before leaving, Master Zhou said that the Yellow Turban Army must have been on guard against us a long time ago. We only need to intercept and harass it in batches so that its food and grass cannot transport food forward to the large camp. The general should not rush to the battlefield."
"How can those bird paths know my ability? I only have two or three thousand soldiers. Not to mention that I have thousands of cavalry accompanying me, even if I only attack the battlefield, I can kill them all."
Yan Liang did not skip Zhang Nan at all, but instead kicked the horse with both legs and accelerated forward.
As a strong man with the peak of internal strength, he naturally has his own arrogance. After all, the enemy of ten thousand people is not for nothing, he really has the ability to kill ten thousand people.
Those monks, who were five or six in front of Yuan Shao, said this today and then that tomorrow, had no practical achievements. When they were in real war, they had to rely on a fierce general like him to fight for their lives. Yan Liang had long despised them.
Chapter completed!