Chapter 3203 Turn
Cao Zhen was cautious and obviously got the reward.
In fact, in most real battle cases, the success rate of ambush is not that high.
Cao Zhen knew that he was not familiar with the surrounding terrain and felt that he felt that after knowing that the scout had been inexplicably damaged, he increased the amount of scout investment...
Many generals in history actually had the reason for the impoverishment because they were too careless and felt that they were sure to win, and as long as A went over, everything would be fine.
For example, Pang Juan was driving in a hurry to pursue Sun Bin. His formation ran faster than the scouts. Who would have been imprisoned if he didn't imprison?
If Cao Zhen keeps his head shut and keeps on his way to seize time and does not conduct detection, then Cao Zhen will undoubtedly fall into the trap set by Li Dian at the moment.
But Cao Zhen is a relatively outstanding general among the second generation of Cao. His vigilance is not bad, and he also reflects his value at this moment.
The Cao army scout who was specially sent out obviously found something in the distant mountains and forests...
Cao Zhen couldn't help but jumped in his heart, and then quickly made a decision and ordered calmly.
"The front troops, rob them and occupy both wings! Check the situation!"
Cao Zhen was still calm on the surface, without any panic.
This gave his soldiers a good signal and also relieved the originally tense emotions in the queue to a certain extent.
But in fact, Cao Zhen’s worries did not decrease.
In such a narrow mountain road, there are only two choices, one is advance and the other is retreat.
Fortunately, most of Cao Zhen is lightweight, and a small number of baggage is placed on mules and horses. If you really retreat on the same road, it will be a little easier than carrying a vehicle, but it is just a little better.
If you still want to turn around on this narrow mountain road with your husband and vehicles, you will be a disaster.
Just like during the military training of higher education, there are still many people who can't tell the difference, let alone ordinary civilians in ancient times, in panic, anything could happen.
Nowadays, most of the leaders of Cao Zhen are his own troops and the elite Cao army. Under the order, the front part separates and moves forward.
At this moment, Cao Zhen still had a glimmer of hope.
What appeared may be just a scout team of defenders, not a large group of people.
If this is the case, the front soldiers will be opened up after they are dispatched...
Of course, if...
Then this part of the troops is possible...
Cao Zhen stared at the front and watched the soldiers rush forward under the leadership of the military academy.
The quality of the elite Cao army was not bad. Without Cao Zhen's specific command, these Cao army soldiers began to have division of labor spontaneously. Some climbed up as much as possible on the cliff walls to seize the high point and cover the subsequent soldiers. Some ran towards the ridge ahead with swords and guns to rescue the Cao army scouts who were in trouble.
Seeing the soldiers in front of Cao's army doing this, Cao Zhen felt a little comforted.
But the forest is too big and far away. The soldiers in front of me seem to be quite large. When they really rushed out and scattered into the forest, they looked thin and sparse. They soon appeared in the swaying woods and shrubs, as if they were gradually swallowed by the forest...
Cao Zhen felt like something was being pulled in his heart.
He looked at it with all his best, trying to distinguish between the shaking figures in the distant mountains and forests, and which side was the dominant one.
Because the style of armor and color of the soldiers of Cao's army are actually similar to those of the cavalry and horses. After all, they were originally under the Han system. The only obvious difference is the flags, generals, flags, etc., but the opposite side obviously did not place a banner, which added a lot of difficulty to Cao Zhen in his judgment.
"The other party seems to have a lot of people..."
Cao Zhen frowned. He saw his subordinates rushing up, but did not immediately achieve any good results. He seemed to have encountered some obstacles, and then he saw someone retreating and running towards here frantically.
Cao Zhen had a bad premonition in his heart.
"Is it really Li Mancheng?"
Cao Zhen gritted his teeth, squinted his eyes, and muttered.
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Li Dian frowned a little.
His ambushed troops were discovered by Cao's army.
After all, the mountain soldiers trained by Li Dianxin are still much worse than those under Wei Yan.
Excellent equipment does not mean that everything is dominant.
The innate shortcomings of the Di people led to some problems when they were ambushing. Although the Di people's mountain soldiers were indeed hard-working, their discipline was still a little poor...
The traces of the Di people collecting food were discovered by the scouts of Cao's army.
The Cao army scouts found some of the ambushing points of the Di people along these traces, and immediately triggered a battle...
Ambushing in the mountains, sometimes there is a big gap between imagination and reality.
Of course, Li Dian also wanted to encircle Cao's army at a suitable location, cut off and divide it, and then eat it in one bite.
However, the number of people and the difficulties in the mountains and forests forced Li Dian to face reality.
The ideal ambush is naturally to lie on a narrow mountain road, lying on the stone wall, and be on the high ground. When the enemy passes by, they will attack with stones and fireballs. However, in fact, such ambush requires the right time, place, and people, and neither of them is missing.
Cao Zhen took a detour to Mulan Side, which destined that Li Dian could choose from an ambush. It was impossible to choose at will, but it must be on this road. However, the ideal ambush on this road is really something that Li Dian could use if he wanted to use it?
First of all, there are not so many canyon zones.
There are indeed many steep canyons in the Qinling Mountains, but the problem is that Cao's army will not go there.
Secondly, Cao's army will not stay in the canyon forever, and will definitely speed up the passage as quickly as possible. Just like when Cao Zhen passed by the canyon area, he was frightened and anxious, and especially strengthened his detection and defense.
The most important point is that time must be kept up.
Whether it is climbing canyons, cliffs, ridges, or preparing to fall rocks and roll wood, or grass balls and fire materials, it takes time.
Li Dian came from Mulan and arrived in a hurry, so he could only choose a more confident place as much as possible, rather than the best ambush place...
Most ambush battles in reality are actually carried out under a slight height advantage or even the same height.
At the same time, ambush warfare is largely impossible to easily achieve zero casualties by relying solely on long-range weapons.
People have the instinct to avoid damage. Even in later heat weapon wars, ambush wars often become chase wars or even tough battles.
The primary condition for ambushing can cause a lot of damage is that the opponent's array collapses and the entire army flees.
Moreover, in order to prevent the other party from detecting as much as possible, ambushing troops often need to be set up in slightly remote areas.
Generally speaking, it takes a considerable time for troops in marching to convert into combat formations. In order to save physical strength, soldiers in marching are often light-fitted and carry only small armor and short weapons. Heavy armor, long-handled weapons, etc. are often loaded on vehicles and beasts in the team, so even if the ambushing army attacks from a distance, the marching troops may not be able to adjust in time.
In other words, most ambushings are actually to raid the ambushed person in a non-combat formation and state in combat formation. When the ambushed person can see the enemy, the opponent must have been pressed over with a dignified formation. At this time, the ambushed person is still busy changing the formation, collecting and allocating weapons. Once this situation is formed, it will basically be a unilateral massacre of the ambushed person.
So is the army that falls into an ambush really equivalent to being wiped out? In fact, it may not be. The biggest damage to the army in the early stages is actually a panic caused to the soldiers, and the army is out of control.
Now it is obvious that Li Dian failed to complete a exquisite ambush, and his soldiers were exposed in advance, causing Cao Zhen's front to enter the ambush circle, but Cao Zhen's formation was still far away and could not fall into the pit.
Now there are only two choices in front of Li Dian. One is to eat the front of Cao's army, and the other is to let the front of Cao's army go and try to lure Cao Zhen into the circle...
After thinking for a while, Li Dian ordered some soldiers to attack, surround and attack the front of Cao's army.
Li Dian did not do his best, because he wanted Cao Zhen to think that there were only so many soldiers...
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As Li Dian's troops were revealed, there was a huge uproar where Cao Zhen's original formation was located.
Although he had more or less realized that there was a Fujun blocking them, he was still a little panicked when he really saw it.
"What should I do if you are the master?"
The guard asked Cao Zhen.
Cao Zhen did not answer for a moment. His eyes were on the figures of the fighting soldiers and looked around.
The opponent did not show much force.
For a moment, he fought back and forth with Cao's front.
The shouts of killing echoed in the valley.
In the battle, they were in a disadvantaged position, and they could not move forward and flee, which not only meant abandoning the front soldiers, but also represented the failure of the strategy of a detour sneak attack.
'Explore again!' Cao Zhen gritted his teeth and said, 'By the battle places and explore further away!'
Cao Zhen asked the scouts who came back to report the news to detect again.
On this time, he believed in his intuition.
Of course, there are some hidden factors besides intuition.
For example, the elite Cao army is still only the elite Cao army, and the troops directly under Cao Zhen have not moved yet...
Li Dian controlled the number of soldiers, and Cao Zhen did not send more soldiers, so the small troops on both sides fought back and forth.
The three Di people and mountain soldiers were in a group. According to the training script, they specially selected those relatively single Cao army soldiers to fight.
The Di people's mountain soldiers were flexible. Whether they were standing on rocks or drilling shrubs, they were waving their swords as if they were in their home yard, and their steps were getting bigger and smaller. They rushed forward to the front of the Cao army soldiers. The Cao army soldiers were indeed deceived by the Di people's mountain soldiers and chopped down with one knife. The Di people's mountain soldiers slowed down half a step. But after the Cao army soldiers cut down the sword, they suppressed them tightly and let their comrades around them suddenly rushed forward.
The sudden killing on the flanks was also fierce. The elite armored soldiers of the Cao army had no time to adjust their posture and put their swords to block the parry. They were stabbed in their legs, feet, arms, etc., which was not fatal. They suddenly burst into blood.
The injured Cao army soldiers fought alone, without other Cao army's support, and soon fell into a more passive situation. The injured hands and feet became slow to react, and then their necks were cut off and died of a life-threatening death.
The Di people's mountain soldiers screamed, and then they openly cut off the heads of Cao's armored soldiers...
"Damn it!" Li Dian, who was also staring at the battlefield in the rear, couldn't help but cursed, "Didn't he emphasize it again and again? The military achievements and heads were calculated after the war! Now there are enemies, so he is busy cutting his head! How do you remember military discipline and laws?!"
The military academy behind Li Dian couldn't help but shrink his head.
The Di people are indeed hardworking, but because of their previous combat mode and combat habits, they have developed. If they really want to change, they can’t change them in a short time. Just like everyone knows that sleeping before 11 o’clock in the evening is good for the body, and they should indeed respect the natural laws of nature, but when they pick up their phones, they forget...
The same is true for the Di people.
Before they were recruited by Li Dian, they were basically fighting among the tribes and villages, and they didn't care about life and death. Killing people was like killing chickens without even blinking, but they also brought about the habits they developed in the tribes themselves.
For example, after killing the opponent, cut off the opponent's head.
On the one hand, it is to confirm and show off your achievements, and on the other hand, it is to intimidate the other party.
Of course, these fighting habits are not all negative. For example, the three-person combat squad model of the Di people was summarized by Li Dian from the daily struggles of the Di people and formed a solidified Di people's mountain combat model.
Generally, the Di people with the most flexible body is used as a temptation. When the opponent uses old moves, the comrades on the flanks will raid, not directly killing, but only causing certain damage. Then they can gradually expand their advantage in subsequent battles and eventually kill the opponent. This combat mode is actually a way for the Di people to fight with beasts between mountains and forests, so when Li Dian uses this tactic to train the Di people, it is almost natural that the Di people accept it.
The Di people are like a sword. Since they need their sharp blade, they must of course bear the possibility of accidentally cutting themselves.
The soldiers of Cao's army were soon strangled by the Di team, but the Di teams who were busy cutting their heads missed the opportunity to continue to expand the results of the battle, giving the soldiers of Cao's army who saw that the situation was not good and began to gather from scattered states a chance to breathe and form a team...
As a result, the advantages of the Di team were gradually flattened. After forming a formation, the Cao army soldiers gradually resisted the attacks of the Di people's mountain soldiers, and the two sides gradually formed a tug-of-war.
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Just like the turning points of many wars are caused by an inconspicuous trivial matter.
The change point of Cao Zhen and Li Dian's battle was also because of an inconspicuous Cao army soldiers...
The hidden position of Li Dian is quite clever. From Cao Zhen's perspective, he can't see anything at all, but it does not mean that Li Dian and others are invisible.
A scout of Cao's army sent by Cao Zhen bypassed the battlefield and regardless of the loose rock and soil layer, he climbed up the ridge on the side. When he looked around, he found the large army of Li Dian and others...
He saw a large number of Hussars lined up on the back of the hillside, waiting for him, almost as if he was at his feet!
In fact, there is still a valley and hillside...
However, even though it was still a little far away, the discovery scared him so much that he almost fell off the ridge. When he recovered a little, he found that if he was running back along the original path, it would not only be a problem of slowness, but also a possibility of being affected by the two sides fighting in chaos.
But there were no items on him that could be used to make alarm sounds...
He stood up eagerly, shrank back a few steps, and jumped and waved towards Cao Zhen outside the sight of Li Dian and others. However, in the mountains and forests, the trees were blocked, and the battlefield ahead was in chaos and screaming, so he could not attract Cao Zhen's effective attention at all.
Could it be that it is really necessary to take such a risk and run back?
The scout Cao Jun looked around and touched his body with his hands, and found the fire-screwing sickle he was carrying.
But although there are some leaves and dead branches around, they are very humid these two days, and even if there is a scythe, they may not be able to ignite it.
Suddenly, the scout Cao's army saw the broken military robe on his body...
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A wisp of black smoke rose.
At first it was just a small strand, but after a while it gradually grew bigger...
"Lord! Look!"
Cao Zhen’s guard discovered the abnormality and gave him guidance to Cao Zhen.
Cao Zhen turned around and saw a ridge of black smoke rising from a distance. In front of the black smoke, a figure was jumping, waving his arms, as if indicating something...
"It must be the thief army ambushing!" Cao Zhen suddenly realized and gritted his teeth.
At the same time, Li Dian also discovered the abnormality and knew that he had been exposed, so he ordered the soldiers to attack.
Suddenly, the soldiers Li Dian hid behind rushed forward, whistling towards the Cao army like a flood rolling from the hillside.
『Li Mancheng…』
If the eyes could burn everything and kill Li Dian, the eyes that Cao Zhen shot in his anger would be enough to cross the space and annihilate the enemy.
It’s a pity that no matter how angry or hatred Cao Zhen is towards Li Dian, it’s useless.
Based on the situation at Yamaguchi, Cao Zhen quickly judged that even if he was involved in the battle, he might not be able to defeat the soldiers who were ambushed by Li Dian. He gritted his teeth and shouted in a deep voice to the guards beside him, "Send the order! Retreat on the spot! The queue cannot be chaotic! Those who chaotic soldiers will be killed!"
This order was issued, which meant that Cao Zhen abandoned the soldiers in the front.
When the sound of gold sounds from afar reached the soldiers in front of Cao's army, the soldiers in front of Cao's army almost collapsed in an instant.
Many Cao's soldiers immediately left behind their opponents they were fighting, turned around and ran away regardless of the situation.
The casualties of Cao's soldiers also increased suddenly at this moment!
Chapter completed!