After the entire Yuyang County was strategically surrounded, the trend of closing the door and beating the dogs was already formed, and the fangs of the Julu Army immediately came out.

There are too many teams surrounding each place and they are too scattered to be commanded together. And if each team fights independently, there is a risk of being defeated individually. Therefore, the previous method is used to agree on a unified action time and a unified action mode.

, and then the scout cavalry are dispatched in the middle, so that the various units can be restrained into a whole.

The difference between this time and the previous one is that in the previous areas where the various ministries assisted in defense, only some teams encountered the enemy, and those who encountered the enemy, only some fought, and most of the battles were not fierce. The thieves who looted the four borders encountered

After the blockade, most of them retreated after a short trial, but this time it was different. This time, all the rebel forces had shrunk into the small Yuyang County, and the enemy had become trapped. A fight to the death was necessary, and a battle was possible.

The number will increase significantly, and the battle will be unprecedentedly fierce.

With this in mind, in order to act as safely as possible and reduce casualties, under the order, all units marched in strict accordance with the battle formation, so the marching speed was as slow as a turtle.

This is one of them. Using slowness to control fastness, the Julu Army slows down its marching speed as much as possible to ensure the team's ability to respond to emergencies.

Secondly, Li Mengxi has specially designed targeted tactics in response to the current situation. There is no doubt that based on the current situation of the Julu Army, the Julu Army has sufficient manpower. Most of the soldiers in the army are rural soldiers who are not well trained and lack armor and stomach. The rural soldiers

Each person is issued with bow and crossbow weapons, and each team is supported by a chariot formation. These factors make the Julu Army naturally suitable for defense. The overall strategic plan is to gradually shrink the encirclement inward and gradually reduce the enemy's strength.

The space for movement is until the city is pressed under Yuyang City. The strategic goal is like this. The strategic goal must be gradually advanced. The most suitable strategy for the Julu Army is defensive tactics, but the defense cannot advance. It is a dilemma.

Li Mengxi's specially designed targeted tactics resolved this dilemma. He issued a unified order to all teams, requiring all units to stop and defend on the spot as long as they encountered enemy troops. They only needed to defend, without counterattack, pursuit, or pursuit.

If you need to continue moving forward, you just need to defend where you are.

In this way, for a single team itself, the team has only two states. If it does not encounter the enemy, it will march normally. If it encounters the enemy, it will drop down and defend on the spot. If the enemy does not move, it will stay in place and defend.

Wait until the enemy retreats before continuing to advance.

Every team is like this. Looking at the overall situation, it becomes that the teams of the Julu Army are like sparrows, and the teams of the bandit army are like vicious dogs. Wherever the vicious dogs pounce, the sparrows will not move and stop.

Confronting the enemy, but the sparrows in other directions continue to advance. In this way, the enemy is like a wild beast caught in a big net. No matter where the enemy's teeth and claws pounce, they pounce in front of them, and behind them they pounce.

Shrinking, throwing themselves behind them, shrinking in front of them. Although the encirclement is not shrinking simultaneously, it is getting tighter and tighter. Any fierce counterattack by the enemy has become a useless struggle.

It is said that there is a story about a butcher who met a wolf and confronted the wolf with a knife. The wolf did not dare to move forward and stared at each other. When he was young, a wolf passed by and a dog sat in front of him. After a long time, his eyes seemed to be closed and his mind was very idle.

The slaughterer rose up, stabbed the wolf's head with a knife, and killed it with several knives. He was about to go, but turned to look behind the pile of firewood, and saw a wolf hole in it, intending to enter the tunnel to attack the rear. The body was already halfway in, and the buttocks and tail were no longer exposed.

. Cut off the buttocks from the back of the butcher and kill him. Then he realized that the wolf in front of him was pretending to be asleep and covered it up to lure the enemy.

The front wolf is pretending to be asleep, while the rear wolf wants to sneak around and attack. The wolf pack seems to be accustomed to this tactic.

On this battlefield, the Julu Army's strategy is like the tactics of a wolf pack. If the enemy advances, defend, and if the enemy retreats, advance. The enemy's sharp edge is completely avoided, and the enemy cannot stop the Julu Army's strategic compression from other directions.

Two important goals are slowly being achieved. The Julu Army will defend when encountering the enemy. Using this turtle tactic, casualties will be greatly reduced. Looking at the entire battlefield, at the same time, there are more unencountered enemies than encountered enemies, and those advancing are more than those defending.

There are many, and the enemy's living space is gradually being eroded.

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The sun is shining brightly and the weather is scorching hot.

A team of nearly 3,000 Julu troops is marching northeastward into Yuyang County. The entire team is tightly gathered together in a tight combat formation. At the head of the team is a row of ten connected vehicles.

In the formation, ten sidecars were connected one next to the other with ropes in the middle. There was a farmer behind each car who was responsible for pushing the cart. The ten cars moved forward slowly at the same speed.

Question, given the road conditions in ancient times, could the road accommodate ten cars traveling abreast?

The answer is, there is no such a wide road.

The road condition is not enough to accommodate ten cars going abreast, and the wider cars can only walk on the wasteland. In addition, ten cars are traveling in parallel, making the walking even more difficult, making the entire team move slower than an old man walking around. It is slow to a crawl.

speed.

After the front row of vehicles, there are two long queues, the left queue, and the left outer side are also side cars. The side cars are one after another on the outside until they reach the back of the queue. In the middle of the road, the infantry queue is

Vehicles were trapped among them. Most of the marching infantry were rural soldiers. The rural soldiers generally had no armor on their bodies. They wore uniform blue turbans on their heads. They did not necessarily have swords and guns in their hands, but everyone had a bow or a gun.

A crossbow was walking on the road. The infantryman held the bow in his hand, and the crossbow was stretched out, ready to be fired at any time.

The entire marching column completely turned into a heavy iron barrel, and the tanks surrounding the periphery surrounded all the manpower and baggage. In this state, no matter when the enemy came to kill, there was no need to make other adjustments.

, stop directly on the spot, all personnel stand on the spot, and can directly start the defense.

The too-shrinking team was too limited to move forward. The road conditions ahead changed again. A hillock appeared in front. The car formation at the front was too wide and had to be adjusted. In order to pass a small hillock, the entire team stopped.

After coming down, the commander went to the front and ordered the people to dismantle the ten horizontal company tanks, and then tediously dismantled them into three horizontal companies, and then arranged the vehicles again, and then the entire team had to be narrowed down a bit.

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Organize the queue.

This has been the case for many days since we have been marching for many days. We stop and go. After walking for a while, we have to win over each other for a long time. The soldiers are already very tired.

The soldier holding the crossbow carefully looked around and saw that the disciplinary officer was not there. The soldier moved his hands and feet on the spot. He complained to others with dissatisfaction, "It will take more than half a day to stop.

How long do you have to stand..."

I complained that when I was just born, I suddenly heard a chirping sound that echoed in the sky.

"The whole army is on alert, the whole army is on alert! The enemy is coming!" The commander's exclamation suddenly came from the front.

The soldier who was chatting with others was suddenly startled and tightened the crossbow in his hand.

The team was slightly confused for a moment, but the reaction was faster, because the entire marching team was already in combat formation, and there was almost no need to make too many adjustments. Officers at all levels just hurriedly moved the chariots surrounding the perimeter.

Together, he shouted to the soldiers to cheer up and prepare to defend against the enemy, and the battle preparations were immediately made.

The enemy troops approached in the blink of an eye. This was an ambush. The enemy cavalry was lying in ambush nearby silently. They only waited until the team passed the post before suddenly coming out to kill them.

Although the response of the Julu Army was hasty, preparations had been made long before the battle. When the enemy cavalry came roaring from the forest, the Julu Army's vehicle formation had been completely closed, and the infantry array behind the vehicle formation was in order.

There was no confusion at all, the soldiers had their bows and crossbows ready to fire.

It must be mentioned at this time that the Julu Army's advanced armament preparations were based on the fact that it was not easy to recruit armored stomachs in the countryside. Therefore, the rural soldiers would lack armored stomachs and would be restrained by the enemy's bows and crossbows. The prior consideration was that they were afraid of the enemy.

Crossbows can be used to counteract crossbows. Crossbows are easy to raise and can also be used in conjunction with car formations. They are the best cost-effective choice.

At this moment, the enemy's cavalry ambushing on the road came quickly, and the Julu Army's marching team of 3,000 men each equipped with a crossbow easily fired a large number of arrows.

Being hit in the head by a hail of arrows, the enemy's force was immediately defeated.

With just one wave of arrows, all the enemy's fighting spirit was gone.

When the enemy saw that the Julu Army was able to counterattack with a terrifying rain of arrows during the sudden attack, and saw that the Julu Army's chariot formation was tight and undisturbed, they knew that even if they attacked by force, they would not be able to defeat it unless most of them came forward.

Not far from this small battlefield, most of the enemy troops slowly arrived later. Together with the cavalry that had been ambushed before, the enemy's cavalry and troops totaled more than 5,000 people, and their strength exceeded the 3,000 people of the Julu Army.

Li Mengxi's prediction in advance was completely correct. The rebel forces had all shrunk to Yuyang County. The possibility of encountering large groups of enemy troops as they marched forward was greatly increased. The enemy troops could reach as many as 5,000 troops. This was what all the ministries were doing when they were assisting in defending the area.

Not seen.

The enemy's activity range has a dual impact. First, the enemy's living space is reduced. Second, the enemy's forces are more concentrated. In the latter, this is a disadvantage to the Julu Army. But on the contrary, as the encircling party, the enemy's activities are reduced.

As the encirclement became smaller and smaller along the way, the Julu Army's small teams of several hundred people gradually gathered, and most of them have gathered into large teams of several thousand people. From this point of view, in the trend

Above, both sides are in balance here.

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The main force of the 5,000-strong bandit army collided with an ordinary team of the Julu Army. The bandit army was cautious. Seeing the strict formation of the Julu Army's vehicles, they did not attack easily and chose to confront each other.

On the Julu Army side, the commander of the team obeys the instructions from above. Whenever he encounters an enemy, no matter how many there are, no matter whether the enemy is attacking or confronting, no matter what he does, he can just set up camp on the spot for defense. The enemy chooses

Confrontation, the commander is eager to do this. Marching is very troublesome, and confrontation is much simpler.

The two sides faced each other at a considerable distance. The confrontation lasted for less than half an hour. The formation of the rebel army changed several times. The formation of the rebel army changed from a square formation at the beginning, to a double-team formation in the center, left and right, and then to a cavalry pressure.

On the flanks, the crossbows were deployed in the offensive position behind the front infantry column. No matter how the enemy troops changed, there was no reaction from the Julu Army.

Strategically, tactically, and personally, the commander of the Julu Army did not care what the enemy was going to do. Seeing that the enemy was not ready to retreat, he simply ordered to set up camp.

It was still broad daylight, and the two armies were still facing each other. They began to set up camp in front of the enemy.

Under the command, the Julu soldiers began to slowly expand the vehicle formation to the outside. The entire defensive formation expanded outward in a circle. Then, following the combat camp method in the combat manual, the soldiers unloaded all the baggage vehicles.

Bags of grain and bundles of fodder were piled up into low walls, and the vacated vehicles were also put to use. The soldiers erected the vehicles side by side, using the vehicle bodies to build wooden walls.

The chariot formation can defend against the attacks of infantry and cavalry, but the thin and low chariot formation cannot prevent incoming arrows. To maintain a long-term garrison, there must be space to rest safely.

, there must be a place that can avoid the rain of arrows. Food, grass, firewood, and erected vehicles have all become materials that can be used to build a shelter from the rain.

These simple arrow-proof fortifications, coupled with the soldiers' shields, were enough to provide some people with hiding and rest needs.

In addition, the commander of the team also started digging wells on the spot and excavating soil on the spot to prepare for the construction of fortifications with soil.

The Julu Army here set up their camp as if there was no one around. The enemy would not let the Julu Army be so safe, so the enemy began to press forward.

The enemy's tentative attack and harassment are destined to not have very good results. The Julu Army is covered by a car formation, which makes them more comfortable than the rebel archers in the open space. Each of the 3,000 Julu Army is equipped with a crossbow.

The total number of crossbowmen is more than that of the enemy; and thirdly, tactical ability. Although the Julu Army has rural soldiers in the majority, the rural soldiers have basically mastered the formation and understand the tactics of volley firing with crossbows.

With numbers, geographical advantages, and tactics all at a disadvantage, the enemy quickly stopped their meaningless explorations.

As night fell, the Julu Army's camp was brightly lit, and the enemy camped in the distance. The fire in the enemy camp was far away from the Julu Army, and the continuous confrontation between the two sides began.

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The strength of each team of the Julu Army has generally increased to the point where the enemy cannot easily defeat them, so there are many confrontations in various places.

There is a problem at this time. The Julu Army uses wolf pack tactics. If the enemy attacks, then defend, and if the enemy retreats, then advance. What if the enemy neither attacks nor retreats, and the enemy also refuses to defend and confronts the Julu Army?

What to do?

The key lies in the strength of the troops. The Julu Army has far more troops than the enemy. Therefore, if the enemy chooses to confront the enemy on all fronts, the Julu Army with idle troops can use its idle troops to calmly harass, infiltrate, and sneak attack the enemy. The advantage will still be

On the side of the Julu Army.

If we talk about logistics problems, the advantage of the Julu Army will be even greater. The rebel army is compressed in Yuyang County. The enemy can only collect supplies from Yuyang County at most, while the Julu Army is outside the encirclement.

In the rear lies the entire vast area of ​​Youji and Hebei Provinces. If the stalemate persists for a long time, the enemy army will inevitably be defeated first.

Needless to say, how much supplies can be supported by Youji and Hebei Provinces. In Jicheng alone, Liu Yuzheng was sending truckloads of food to the front line. There was an endless stream of convoys delivering food. With such strong support, he could drag the enemy away.

The army dragged him to death.
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