At the end of August, the two troops of Pu and Qiang Crossbow, who had worked hard since Zhangye's farewell, successfully joined forces in Pu Hai."
Eight hundred, eight hundred."
Yang Yun saw Zhang Pengzu, the son of Zhang Anshi, who was a personal guard in Han Zeng's army, so he beckoned him to come and ask him, and his words were eight hundred, meaning that Peng Zu lived eight hundred."
You tell me honestly, how many crossbow generals have beheaded?"
Zhang Pengzu, as the son of the right general, also became a guard in the palace early, and also followed Yang Yun, it was difficult to refuse, and after looking at the left and right, he said in a low voice: "It is said that it is three hundred, but in fact, it is more than one hundred, and the remaining two hundred are all old and young who are killed indiscriminately, and the younger brother, but don't say that I leaked it." ”"Definitely, definitely!"
I don't know if it must be leaked out or kept silent, Ren Hong felt that it was the former, so after inquiring about the situation, Yang Yun brought him two news."
The bad news is that the former general's army traveled more than 1,000 miles west after living in Yansai, and he didn't catch the Huns, he only encountered a small tribe along the way, and he beheaded and captured more than 300 people, which was not as much as my Xiliang Iron Cavalry."
The good news doesn't need him to say that Ren Hong also saw it, Han Zeng was lucky, and by the way, he captured more than 7,000 horses, cattle and sheep, drove them here, and slaughtered all the meat, so that he could solve the urgent needs of the army, but even if he added the income from fishing and fishing, it was only enough for ten days of rations.After rushing to the predetermined battlefield, they found that the target of the attack was gone, and how to fight the next battle became a problem for the two generals to solve.The two armies discussed under the Yuanmen, Han Zeng's army in the army, Guanglu doctor Yiqu Anguo took the lead in proposing: "It is common for the Han army to go out of the fortress and not find the Xiongnu, such as the sixth year of the Yuan Ding, the Xiongnu Uwei Shan Yu reigned, the Han has destroyed the two Yue, and sent the late Gongsun He to ride 15,000 out of Jiuyuan more than 2,000 li, to Futho Well, from the Huhou Zhao Ponu more than 10,000 horses out of the Lingju thousands of miles, to the Xiongnu River, all of them did not see the Xiongnu and returned. ”Yiqu Anguo spread his hands and said: "The general ordered us to send troops to the Pu Sea to attack the Right Xian Wang's department, but now the Right King is far away and nowhere to be found, and the army's food is about to run out. ”As soon as his voice fell, Zhao Guanghan, the military leader on General Pu's side, calculated the account: "The country spent tens of thousands of dollars, and five generals went out of the fortress, and Pu and strong crossbows were beheaded for a total of 800 and returned?"
I'm afraid that the DPRK and China will not be able to explain it. ”Yiqu Anguo shook his head: "But if you don't retreat, if you run out of food, the Huns will take advantage of it, and the loss will be even greater." ”There was a lot of discussion among the various ministries, although there were many who had the intention of retreating, but in the end, they still did not retreat and prevailed, and 60,000 people cut off hundreds of heads, and they couldn't afford to lose that person.And Zhao Chongguo also expressed his position: "The most common thing the general says is that the soldiers are not empty. ”So Fan Mingyou attacked the Huns a few years ago to save Wuhuan, but the Huns retreated first, and would rather cut down thousands of Wuhuan people than return empty-handed.As the former general and the commander of the shogunate, how could Zhao Chongguo not know how much pressure Huo Guang fought under in this battle, if he returned empty-handed, the general's face would be dark.But if they don't retreat, the Han army will also face several problems, one is how to solve the supply, and the other is where to find the Huns to fight?
Third, it is the main purpose of this troop dispatch, how to solve the dilemma of Wusun?
It is obviously unrealistic to rely on Dunhuang thousands of miles away to transport grain across the Gobi and snow-capped mountains, and some people think of the Western Regions Protectorate, which is on the edge of the Western Regions, and it is not far away, right?
But Ren Hong interrupted coldly and told these few people who didn't know how big Xinjiang was."
Pu to Hanse, Ming'an County, Dunhuang County, 1,200 miles.""
Pu to the Western Regions to protect the nearest Tuntian Point Tiemen Pass, more than 2,000 miles, during which there are also snow-capped mountains and Gobi obstacles."
Look at the maps drawn by the officials of the subordinate countries who stayed up all night one after another!
At this time, Xin Wuxian hurriedly proposed: "The Pu people said that the Huns left the Pu Sea half a month ago and went north, and they couldn't go fast with the cattle and sheep, and the livestock manure left along the way could not be wiped off. ”Ren Hong heard it, this was Wei and Huo's tactics against the Huns.Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty wanted to attack the revenge of Hu Fu IX, but the Huns were different from the enemies of the Seven Kingdoms of Wu and Chu, and their economy, tactics, and thinking were very different from those of the Central Plains, and the traditional tactics handed down from the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period were not used.After decades of fighting, the Han army had experience in passive defense after hiding in the Great Wall of Fengsui, but how could they lead the war to the territory of the Xiongnu to hurt them?
This is the problem that Yuanguang wanted to solve when the four generals went out of the fortress in the fifth year.The Great Han was lucky, an emperor's brother-in-law named Wei Qing, who was not famous before the war, found a clever way to deal with the Xiongnu.With the high mobility of the cavalry, they went deep into the grassland for hundreds of miles, rushed to attack the Xiongnu tribes, and took the surrendered Xiongnu as guides to find places with abundant water and grass to march, so as not to make it difficult for the army to travel far away due to hunger and thirst.Send scout cavalry to capture prisoners and interrogate them, scout the enemy's position, and then launch a surprise attack with lightning speed.After breaking the enemy, they plundered cattle, sheep and horses to supply scarce rations, and also destroyed the economic base of the Xiongnu by the way.Therefore, in the battle of Yuanguang, all the generals are in the north, but Wei Qinglong City is the only one!
With this set of tactics, Wei Qing repeatedly performed miraculous feats, and was promoted from a general to a general, and then named the Marquis of Changping.And Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty also took Wei Qing as a template and began to shape a new imperial army, and the chariot and infantry captains transformed into cavalry generals, and followed Wei Qing to blitz the Huns many times.Huo Quzhi's tactics are better than Wei Qing's, and he pursues faster marches and larger range of maneuvers, and a single attack can often reach two thousand miles!
In the first battle out of the mountain, he left the large army with 800 people, and when the main force of the Han army could not find the general's little nephew, he was in a hurry, and he had already taken his subordinates, and everyone returned with their captives.During the Yuanzhan period, Huo Qubing only brought 10,000 cavalry into Hexi, fought for six days, crossed the Yanzhi Mountain for thousands of miles, and successively fought with five Hun kings.This kind of surprise attack without warning caught the kings on the right side of the Xiongnu off guard, because Huo Hussar's movements were too fast, the Xiongnu could not keep up with the speed at all, and when they came back to their senses, they could no longer find anyone.The war changed from the Han army blindly looking for the Xiongnu in the vast grassland to the Huns being so anxious that they burned their eyebrows and looked for Huo Qu's disease everywhere.This kind of high-speed sports warfare allowed Huo Qu's sick department to beat the kings of the right of the Huns scattered for thousands of miles with one as ten, and when the right kings were looking for Huo Qubing everywhere, General Huo directly took his old nest to the nest.In one battle, 30,200 captives were beheaded, 59 kings and princes were obtained, 63 Xiangguo, generals, pawn households, and captains were brought back, and the queen mother was brought back by a dozen and a dozen, which opened the eyes of Chang'an people.Such a general, how can Xiaowu not love him?
In the battle of Mobei, Huo Qubing gave full play to his aggressiveness, pursued and attacked the Xiongnu Zuoxian King, constantly captured the enemy's grain and grass to supplement supplies, chased him for a full 2,000 li, and fought until Wolf Juxu Mountain and Hanhai did not stop.The core spirit of Weihuo is to fully carry forward the maneuver of the cavalry to carry out surprise attacks, and then launch a continuous pursuit of the defeated enemy.It was this tactic that Xin Wuxian proposed.This is a countless wars that have proved that the most efficient way to deal with the Xiongnu has only one drawback.It's too much of a test of the quality of generals."
No matter who it is, if you have cavalry under your command, plus the courage to go out of the fortress, can you be a guard?"
Yang Yun muttered quietly behind Ren Hong's back, disapproving Xin Wuxian's proposal.Indeed, if it were really that simple, the Xiongnu would have been destroyed seven or eight times when Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty.In his later years, in order to destroy Hu, Han Wu did everything to solve it, tactically willing to let the princess contact Wusun, manage the Western Regions to break the right arm of the Xiongnu, move Wuhuan to the Great Wall to break the left arm of the Xiongnu, and let Sang Hongyang reform the economy to solve military spending, and change the conscription to recruit to create a new source of soldiers.Everything was well prepared, but in the end, one thing was missing."
In this world, there is no Dragon City Flying General!"
If you want to make good use of Wei Huo's tactics, the generals must not only have excellent command skills and know the map well, but also have a clear understanding of the overall situation.Only in this way can we accurately capture the constantly flowing center of gravity of the Xiongnu forces in the vast steppe and launch a thunderous blow to the weakest link of the enemy army.Except for Wei Huo Shuangxing, few generals can do this.The dozen or twenty marquis under Wei Huo's command can't do it, Li Ling can't do it, and Li Guangli can't do it.Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty sent people out thousands of miles to find and annihilate the Xiongnu many times in the evening, obviously wanting to replicate the successful experience of Changping and the second marquis of the champion, but the result backfired.In the second year of Taichu, Zhao Ponu led more than 20,000 cavalry out of the northwest of Shuofang for more than 2,000 miles, intending to return to the dynasty when he arrived at Junji Mountain, but was noticed by the Huns.Shan Yu continued to dispatch troops, and after Zhao Ponu killed thousands of enemy soldiers, he was surrounded by 80,000 Hu cavalry and unfortunately captured.In the second year of the Tianhan Dynasty, Li Guangli, the general of the second division, rode out of Jiuquan with 30,000 yuan, attacked the right Xianwang Yu Tianshan, and captured more than 10,000 enemy troops.Who knew that the Han army was surrounded by the Hun army on the way back to the division, and six or seven out of ten soldiers were killed, so there was no need to say anything about Li Ling.The same is true of the four years of the Tianhan Dynasty and the two battles of the Zhenghe years.How come the tactics that have been tried and tested again and again suddenly fail?
Is it the generals of the Han army who are floating?
Or can't the soldier hold the ring head knife?
Not only Han Wu was confused, Ren Hong was also suspicious for a while, he was in Chang'an some time ago, while pushing the baby's cradle, while looking for the records at that time to ponder one by one, and found that the common point of these defeats was to win first and then lose.After the Han army defeated the enemy, the Xiongnu immediately quickly assembled into a heavy group of troops and ambushed the opponent on the way back, resulting in the Han army being outnumbered.There was a problem in fighting on the steppe, the cavalry groups of both Han and Hungary were moving rapidly, and their positions were constantly changing, and it was difficult to form an encirclement situation.Whoever discovers the opponent first and quickly gathers forces and spreads formation will win the first opportunity.In this regard, the Huns, the masters of the steppe, obviously had an advantage, which forced the Han army to be faster and sharper than the other side.However, when the latecomers imitated the champion Hou Chusai's style of playing for 2,000 miles, the single line of action, the dull tactics, the slow pace of combat were exposed, and the judgment of the enemy situation was far less accurate than Huo Quai's.This left the Huns time and space to reorganize the counterattack, and it was still difficult to retreat with all their bodies, and it was even more hopeless to defeat the enemy.In the end, Ren Hong understood: "Don't blame the generals for being too incompetent, only blame Wei and Huo Yougundam!"
”Wei Huo's birth gave the world the illusion that he forgot that the average level of Han generals was much lower than Li Guang.And looking at today's account, can there be generals who can send Wei Huo out of the fortress for 2,000 miles without losing?
Zhao Chongguo is heavy with soldiers, and from the perspective of pondering Tuntian every time he goes, his temperament is completely different from Wei Huo's, and it is difficult for him to learn.Ren Hong didn't know how well Han Zeng was fighting, he just looked at the march, and he was also a little sluggish, and he took a better road, which was actually slower than them crossing the Gobi and crossing the snow-capped mountains.Not to mention the rest of the people, everyone, you look at me, I look at you, no one came forward to ask for battle, except for Xin Wuxian, who was too confident.Said that Xin Wuxian was Li Guang's second Hongxin, Wei Huo?
Forget it.Even Ren Hong himself, he didn't dare to come to this porcelain job, although he was praised by Xiao Zhao as "My Wei Huo", but Ren Hong himself was very clear."
Although I have a small merit, but when it comes to the ability to command the army, I can't even touch the tail of the two generals" When talking about the army, everyone was Wei Huo, but when they really fought, they found that they were not as good as Li Guangli.What's more, in addition to the first battle, Wei Huo took the officers and subordinates who had been tempered by countless wars out of the fortress, and he could do it like an arm, most of the recruited cavalry under Ren Hong's command had just been recruited for two months, and he was half-baked, so let him take his generation out of the fortress for thousands of miles to find the enemy?
Forget it, don't hurt them.Give Ren Hong five years, temper his soldiers thousands of times, pull them to the grassland to practice every year, and constantly change new blood to come in, so that he has the confidence to emulate the courage of his predecessors in Longcheng.As for now?
Or find your own positioning, win and then seek battle, fight a sure battle, and pinch the persimmon softly."
The subordinates have a plan."
Seeing that no one responded to Xin Wuxian's call, Ren Hong got up and proposed.Zhao Chongguo signaled Ren Hong to just say, then he pointed to the west and said with a smile: "Don't just focus on the missing Youxian Wangbu, the Huns who besieged Wusun, and the people who chased the king the day before yesterday and the right Liwang Xianxian Shan people today.And the Liwang Court of the Right Valley, which is more than 1,000 miles away in the west, at the northern foot of the Tianshan Mountains, can be reached by cavalry in a few days!
”The right valley Liwang court is about near Urumqi in the later generations, and there are aquatic plants moistened by the snow water of the Tianshan Mountains all the way from the Pu Sea.The golden reward, who was also a lieutenant of the department, had concerns, and said: "Since the people of the Right Virtuous King can anticipate our soldiers and move the old and weak away half a month in advance, then the account of the Right Valley Li King is probably no longer in place. ”Just go, this is the advantage of the Huns, only by settling the old and weak first, the Huns can rest assured that they can follow their respective lords to fight Wusun and grab people and sheep.And the right land is vast, the territory is thousands of miles, even Jiankun and Hujie are also added, it is not bragging, it is really bigger than the Central Plains, if you find it empty when you arrive at the place, where to find the army hungry in a short time.Ren Hong said with a smile: "Captain Jin is very worried, but the Right Sage King of the Huns and the Right Valley Liwang can run, but they are also thousands of miles away in the west, but some people can't run!"
”PS: Chapter 2 is before 0:00.