Three Kingdoms

Chapter 3356 Changes in tactics

Xu Chu glanced at the battlefield and said, "The left wing. 』

"reason? Fei Qian nodded slightly and then asked.

"There is Anyi on the left. Cao Jun could use the cover of Anyi City to mobilize troops and horses to attack, but we were covered by Anyi City and were not easy to see. ” Xu Chu said quickly, “And as long as Cao Jun makes some preparations for an attack in the middle, our formation will be contained... And in Anyi City... the morale of the defenders has collapsed. If our army moves but fails. It can save everyone... It can't be said but it will cause restlessness..."

Fei Qian nodded.

Anyi City is obviously the landmine left by Mr. Cao to Fei Qian.

If Fei Qian doesn't come, then Mr. Cao will demolish Anyi and pack it up to go home. He will also spread the word that Fei Qian will not save him until death, and that the Hedong gentry will be miserable. Then he will let a few guys come on stage to perform. Not only can he It made Cao Jun's behavior more righteous and gave him some chips for subsequent exchanges.

But when Fei Qian came, Cao Jun stopped attacking Anyi.

It's not that Cao's army can't separate its men, nor that Anyi's defenders can get many BUFFs and be resurrected with full health after the Hussars arrive, but it leaves Fei Qian with a problem.

Fei Qian squinted and looked in the direction of Anyi.

The sooner this problem is solved, the better, but the solution cannot follow Cao Jun's plan.

No matter what, if the people in Anyi City hold on until now, they should be saved first.

But it’s not possible, and it’s impossible to save them all.

Firstly, it was to show his attitude, and secondly, it was to disrupt Cao Jun's arrangement.

Tactical changes must not follow the enemy's rhythm.

Cao Jun set up such a large camp, and it was almost written on his face that he would come and beat me in the future.

Especially the high platform in the central camp of Cao Jun's camp, it simply showed that he was afraid that Fei Qian and others could not see it...

Although it was said that such a large camp needed a high platform to issue orders in order to direct the movement of soldiers and horses in the camp, Fei Qian felt that something was wrong.

This "something is wrong" is just a feeling, and to prove this feeling, the only way to test it is to attack.

But if the entire army goes up to attack Allin, is that still called a fart test?

Therefore, it became inevitable for Cao's army to attack Anyi in a partial camp.

This partial camp of Cao's army is obviously a "trap" left by Cao's army.

Not dug on the surface, but dug tactically.

If you want to attack this partial camp of Cao's army, what should you use to attack it?

If it were an ordinary person, they would habitually use their familiar methods and mature experience to solve new problems, to open up the "thunder" laid by Cao Cao, and then most likely with a bang...

The entire Cao Jun camp, including this side camp, is full of various BUFFs against cavalry. If Fei Qian still followed the pattern of the camp down the slope and directly used the cavalry to rush into the camp after making a hole, wouldn't it make Cao Jun laugh? Losing big teeth?

So the person Fei Qian called was Xu Chu.

What Xu Chu was good at was infantry.

This is a subtle change in Fei's potential tactics...

Xu Chu obviously also understood Fei Qian's intention. He knew that Fei Qian wanted him to bring the infantry into the camp. Otherwise, he would not have called him. Instead, he should have called Li Li, or called both of them together. Just come.

Previously, Xu Chu, as the vanguard, had insufficient troops. Even if he wanted to rescue Anyi, he was powerless.

Now that Fei Qian is here, the first thing to do is to dismantle this "thunder"!

Cao Jun wants to plant a "thunder" for Fei Qian, so on the other hand, can Fei Qian use this "thunder" to give Cao Jun some color?

Fei's cavalry lurking on the outside was obviously to guard against a sneak attack by Cao's army.

Moreover, Fei Qian also had a hidden card. If Cao Jun felt that Fei Qian's army was weak and wanted to take advantage, then Fei Qian would tell them that when Fei Qian raised his army in the early years, he only used infantry!

It's just that over the years, the hussars have come and gone, and it seems that only the cavalry are left...

Fei Qian turned around, smiled at Xu Chu and said, "That's true." Now that he knows the danger here, is Zhong Kang willing to lead the infantry to break out of the camp? 』

Xu Chu was stunned for a moment, then he snapped his hands, cupped his hands and said in a deep voice: "I wish to go!" Please give the order, my lord! 』

Fei Qian nodded, "Good!" However, Zhongkang led his army into the camp of Cao Jun in Anyi. You might as well pay more attention to the ordinary civilians in the camp... Remember, the battle is quick and you can't enter the city! 』

"A civilian husband?" Xu Chu could understand the two points of a quick victory and not entering the city, but what happened to this common man?

Although he was a little confused, it was obviously not the time to inquire in detail, so Xu Chu accepted the order happily, "I obey the order!" 』

Seeing Xu Chu heading to the left wing to prepare for battle, Fei Qian felt a little more worried.

Anyi City, to save or not to save, to manage or not to care?

If you save someone, you may not be grateful; if you don't save someone, you may feel resentful.

If you don't care about it, it will be a burden, but if you don't care about it, you will lose morality.

And the longer this problem is delayed, the greater the "thunder" will be.

Because of the heavy casualties in Anyi City, and the hot weather these days, it is inevitable that there will be epidemics in the city. If it is delayed to the end, the deaths of innocent people in the city may not be blamed on Cao Cao, but some people will definitely say that it is. Fei Qian's rescue was ineffective!

"Since the hussars can come, why not come earlier!" ? 』

"Now that you're here, why don't you come and save me quickly?" ! 』

"Don't you think about the common people in the world?" 』

"Am I no longer a common people or a common people? 』

In Anyi City, such people must be indispensable.

It's like Kong Yiji spent a few big coins, and he must have asked the store owner to sift a bowl of wine first and give it to him.

The debts owed before were the debts owed before, and now the payment is in cash...

When the store owner mentioned the debt, Kong Yiji said plausibly, "Your wine is watered down!"

Others ridiculed you for drinking even though it was mixed with water, and you didn't pay for the wine you owed before.

Kong Yiji was furious, I didn’t care before, but now I paid for this bowl!

As for the debt...

Can the things done by scholars be considered stealing?

The atmosphere inside and outside the store was suddenly filled with joy.

Therefore, people's hearts have always been like this.

Moreover, Fei Qian is still worried that if...

Is it not just the people in the city of Anyi?

Among the ordinary people and civilians from Shandong, Heluo, and Hedong who were captured by Cao's army, which ones stayed, which ones were sent away, and which ones simply died. Could it be that they were randomly selected?

Fei Qian didn't dare to think about it anymore, because he always felt a little shuddering when he thought about it too much.

Turning around, he looked at Xu Chu again.

Xu Chu accepted Fei Qian's order.

Although he was a general in the former army, he was temporarily demoted after the defeat of the war. However, he is still at the level of a general, and his merits and demerits will not be calculated until the final battle is over, so Xu Chu is naturally eager to get more Opportunities to gain more meritorious deeds, even in the face of more dangers.

The camp of Cao Jun that besieged Anyi and the main camp of Cao Jun were, in a sense, integrated, but there was some distance between them.

This method, which seems to be a link but is not a complete link, is also a joint venture method.

At the same time, the structure between the Anyi camp and Cao Jun's joint camp actually shows a corner of the structure of Cao Jun's entire camp.

There are large camps within small camps, and between the large and small camps, there are passages, traps, and the civilians who built the camps with their own hands, but are not even qualified to live there...

Just like a vegetable farmer cannot afford to eat vegetables, a silkworm girl cannot afford to wear silk.

The civilian men who built Cao Jun's camp also couldn't afford to live in the camp.

However, Xu Chu didn't think much about it now. He just thought about how to break through the camp on the flanks of Cao Jun's camp and besieging Anyi City, and how to get in touch with the people in Anyi City and rescue some people. .

Yes, only part of it.

A quick victory, without entering the city, determines the pattern of the entire battle.

Xu Chu looked at the assigned artillery brigade.

After Fei Qian divided his troops into three parts, each part could obtain four towed artillery pieces.

Now the movement speed of the artillery has been strengthened to a certain extent.

Since they no longer have to give birth to children, the tall mules and horses naturally have no family worries. They are happy to drag the artillery with improved axles on the hard yellow soil as long as there are stutters.

The left wing soldiers under Xu Chu's command now include the 2,000 infantry he originally commanded, plus the 1,000 cavalry and four artillery pieces from the artillery battalion newly assigned to him by Fei Qian.

The infantry and cavalry are both in regular configuration, there is nothing to say.

The four artillery can probably be regarded as a large group, divided into two small groups, with a total of two hundred people.

Although the artillery battalion was under the command of Xu Chu, the officers in it were from the Huang family. They were transferred from craftsmen to officers, so to some extent, they were relatively independent military positions.

As Xu Chu moved to the flank, Cao Jun obviously saw that there was some restlessness in the camp. The soldiers of Cao's army on the wall were running up and down, swinging back and forth, but no one dared to go out to fight in the field to intercept Xu Chu or Fei Qian's tactical arrangements.

An hour later, Xu Chu led the team to the fighting position.

Xu Chu looked at the Cao Jun camp besieging Anyi and the somewhat panicked Cao Jun soldiers on the wall, and couldn't help but sneer.

Xu Chu felt that Cao Cao, or in other words, Cao Jun, was still unwilling to give up.

Judging from the formation of Cao Cao's army, Cao Cao's most direct lineage, the Central Leading Army and the Central Guard Army, are still deployed in the center, while flanking areas like Anyi are dominated by ordinary county Cao Army soldiers.

The scattered nests of civilians may serve as buffer zones.

But is this layout really effective?

The Lord ordered us to pay attention to the civilians who are in the camp as a "buffer zone". What does it mean?

Because of the arrival of the Hussars, Anyi became a secondary target. Many Cao troops no longer paid special attention to the movements in Anyi city. They just surrounded Anyi with ditches, horseback, antlers and sidecars.

Xu Chu squinted at Cao Jun's camp and also looked at Anyi City in the distance.

Anyi City is in a very dilapidated state.

He needs to first defeat Cao Jun's camp, then open up a passage that is enough for the people in Anyi City to escape, and then sustain enough time to take out some of the people amid the risk of Cao Jun's pursuit, encirclement and outflanking...

This mission is not without danger.

There are at least two uncertainties. One is not sure whether Cao Jun's camp will take the opportunity to make a sneak attack, and the other is not sure whether the people in Anyi City will be willing to cooperate.

Of course, anyone with a normal mind knows that Anyi City should cooperate with Fei Qian's actions as much as possible at this moment. After all, Fei Qian's combat power is now the main force, and Anyi cannot provide any necessary auxiliary support, but who can ensure that Are there no idiots in Anyi City?

What if a guy pops up and blocks the city gate when leaving the city, saying no, no one is allowed to leave because the dog at home hasn't gotten on the car yet...

But no matter what, the action still needs to be carried out.

Xu Chu stared at the terrain in front of him, evolving and building a suitable passage in his mind. Because as a general of the front army, he sent scouts to conduct a relatively detailed survey of the front of Cao's camp and the surroundings of Anyi City, which is now useful.

This may be the reason why Fei Qian left this task to him.

If you do it well, you will be outstanding.

If you do it badly...

No one will always have a chance, even if he has been with Fei Qian for many years.

If this battle is not fought well, then he may only be a guard commander forever!

Xu Chu put aside his distracting thoughts and quickly sketched out a passage on the east side of Anyi in his mind.

Cao's army had been stationed here for quite a while, so Xu Chu was not entirely sure what strange things were on the high slopes of the earth plateau, so when opening the rescue channel, he had to try not to pass through the scattered camps of Cao's army.

There were about two to three thousand people stationed in the Cao's camp around Anyi City, and of course there were some civilians left behind.

Most of these Cao's soldiers were county soldiers, a little lower than the Zhonglingjun Zhonghujun, but stronger than the remnants of Anyi.

If they dragged their feet during the transfer, then these Cao's county soldiers would obviously be unable to compete with the elite cavalry, but it would not be impossible to kill some guys who escaped from Anyi...

"The lord has an order!"

Xu Chu said in a deep voice, his eyes swept over the several military schools in front of him, "Quick battle and quick decision! Do not enter the city! '

The cavalry commander is an old military marquis with rich combat experience, and the infantry will be the main force of this battle. Both the advance and the retreat will be tested by the infantry, led by Xu Chu himself, so the key point is the artillery brigade.

That's right, the cavalry is not suitable for rushing into Cao's camp this time.

One is that there are too many traps in the camp, and the other is that it is also necessary to guard against sneak attacks from Cao's camp.

'Artillery team! ' Xu Chu called the name.

'I'm here. ' The Huang family artillery team military school bowed in response.

'Don't hold back, blast a road on the wall of the camp in the northeast direction of Anyi City as quickly as possible! ' Xu Chu gave the order.

'Northeast of the city? That direction is closer to Cao's camp. ' The Huang family military school frowned slightly, 'If Cao's camp attacks, the artillery will not be able to move in time! '

'This is the task of the old military marquis! ' Xu Chu turned his head and looked at the cavalry assistant military school.

The cavalry marquis was older and had the experience points, but he was stuck in the cultural level and could not be promoted to the cavalry captain. Li Li, the latecomer, had taken over, and the old marquis was still the old marquis.

Because the old marquis's innate learning ability was really lacking, and these middle and high-level officers in Fei Qian's army were prepared to replace and supplement local officials in the future, so the requirements were very strict, and there was no way to be promoted if the cultural level did not meet the standards.

Although the old marquis had followed Zhang Lie to Fei Qian in the northeast of the Yellow River very early, after all, the old marquis had not read books when he was young, and waiting to read after adulthood would be twice the effort and half the result.

The most critical point is that he has lost the ability to learn by himself.

The learning materials of the Han Dynasty were scattered and disrupted, with few or even no continuity. The old marquis did not form an effective progressive chain of knowledge when he was young, resulting in poor results even if he put in much effort and time.

Don't underestimate this "learning knowledge chain", it is the basis of self-study! Just like knowing that one plus one equals two, you can learn that two plus two equals four, and then you can learn that two times two also equals four. If one of the links is broken, then learning will be difficult.

Therefore, the United States in later generations will deliberately disrupt this learning chain in the textbooks of primary and secondary schools, making it scattered and incoherent. Of course, it is not worth mentioning for those with talent, but it can filter out many children with average talent, who are unwilling to work hard and just want to be happy.

The old military marquis suffered this loss, and it was a dumb loss.

When he was a child, he did not learn this kind of knowledge progression relationship, so for him, almost all the knowledge is scattered, which is difficult to remember and understand. Therefore, even if he has rich combat experience and accumulated merits, he still cannot be promoted to the cavalry captain, and can only stay in the position of military marquis for a long time...

Unless there are particularly important merits, it is possible to be promoted in an exceptional way.

So this time, the old military marquis also wants to take this opportunity to climb to that level. It may be easy for others, but it is an extremely difficult step for him!

"General, don't worry! If the enemy army dares to attack, they will definitely not return! '

The old military marquis is not afraid of fighting, but he is afraid of not having enough merit.

'Good!' Xu Chu nodded. Since he found that Li Li was far superior to him in cavalry command, he rarely gave instructions to other arms. He just made clear the mission objectives, 'After the artillery bombardment, if Cao's army leaves the camp, the cavalry will intercept and strangle them! The cavalry shall not attack the Cao's camp, and shall not chase and kill in a scattered manner. The priority should be to protect the artillery! '

'In addition, I will leave another 500 infantrymen for guarding...' Xu ​​Chu looked at the Huang's Military Academy, 'In this way, the cavalry will be outside and the infantry will be inside. If there is a crisis, I will also come back to rescue! The Cao army will not even think about getting close to the artillery! In this way, you can use it with confidence, right? ! '

Huang's military academy quickly answered: "General, your words are serious." Please give the general's orders. 』

"Simple! Xu Chu smiled, showing a few big white teeth, "Just take it straight from the center!" 』

Because there were too many traps and fortifications to defend the cavalry in Cao's camp, Xu Chu simply did the opposite. Instead of using cavalry, he used infantry to walk in a straight line, build bridges when encountering ditches, and build ladders when encountering walls. , followed the passage opened by the artillery, and rushed directly to the gate of Anyi City, realizing the tactical requirements of a quick victory required by Fei Qian!