The efficiency of capturing prisoners is related to the effectiveness of the war against the Yellow Turbans.

If the Yellow Turbans are defeated but not destroyed, and then gather again after three or two days, and only lose a few hundred Yellow Turbans in each battle, then the war against the Yellow Turbans will have to be delayed for a month or two without being concluded.

If, after defeating the Yellow Turbans in each battle, three to two thousand Yellow Turban prisoners can be captured in each battle, not to mention too many, then every battle can reduce the Yellow Turbans' combat potential.

At the same time, if the rebels can gradually digest the Yellow Turban prisoners into their own strength, then the Yellow Turbans will gradually weaken and the rebels will gradually become stronger. One will decline and the other will grow, and it can be like a snowball, eventually becoming a conflict.

According to Li Mengxi's observation with the army, in today's battle, in addition to the lack of ropes, the cavalry was not fully utilized.

Today, they first pretended to be defeated, and then waited for the Yellow Turbans to chase them for several miles, and after chasing them to pieces, the cavalry went straight back along the road and killed them like a wind, catching the Yellow Turbans off guard.

If the enemy is a strong opponent and there is no need to capture prisoners, there is no doubt that the sooner you can seize the opportunity and defeat the enemy's structure, the better. There is no problem with cavalry being used as it is today.

But if we want to cooperate with the rebels' overall strategic actions, it would be a bit inappropriate for all the cavalry to go into battle and not to round up the defeated troops.

The powerful mobility of cavalry allows them to be far more efficient than infantry when pursuing broken troops.

Li Mengxi and Guan Yu expressed their thoughts on how the cavalry should cooperate with the infantry to capture as many prisoners as possible.

Guan Yu and Li Mengxi got together and drew formation diagrams with twigs and grass on the ground to deduce the tactics.

I saw that the sketches drawn on the ground were roughly what today's war would look like, with a main road as the core, and scattered around were scattered yellow turban troops.

"There's something wrong here," Guan Yu frowned, "the infantry couldn't keep up with the cavalry. The cavalry in front scared the Yellow Turbans away, and before the cavalry could catch up, the Yellow Turbans were already scattered. And it was all up to the infantry to capture the prisoners.

, Therefore, although we are victorious this time, we will not take many prisoners."

Li Mengxi generally understood what Guan Yu said.

The cavalry team was a bit alarmed. The cavalry team swept along the road like a gust of wind. Although it defeated the possibility of the Yellow Turbans gathering the entire team in one fell swoop, it also directly caused the entire Yellow Turban line to collapse. The Yellow Turbans were all frightened. From front to back, all the Yellow Turbans were

, all fled.

Then, the infantry slowly chased them along the avenue, and the yellow scarves who were behind had almost fled.

If you want to make the capture of prisoners more effective, the cavalry cannot charge so fiercely and must cooperate well with the infantry. The cavalry spreads out and surrounds them, acting like a fish net. The troops follow closely and put the fish in the net, one by one.

Caught.

In this way, how many prisoners can be captured depends on how big the net is opened by the cavalry.

The rebel cavalry now has over a hundred cavalry. With the cavalry's intimidating power and maneuverability, a hundred cavalry is enough to suppress a thousand people.

But the number of prisoners captured today was only a few hundred.

The cavalry will no longer defeat and disperse the Yellow Turbans. Of course, there will be more risks. For example, it may allow the Yellow Turbans to gather calmly and pose a certain threat. However, compared with the benefits, the Yellow Turbans are currently so weak that the threats posed by the Yellow Turbans are not worth mentioning.

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What if the Yellow Turbans can assemble calmly? It's just a battle.

War serves politics. If we say that war is for the purpose of winning as many victories as possible and killing as many enemies as possible, this is not entirely correct.

Take the current rebel army as an example. The core strategy of the rebel army is to devour the Yellow Turbans in order to become powerful. Capturing and digesting the Yellow Turban prisoners is the top priority.

Then, as long as enough prisoners can be captured, it doesn't matter if the Yellow Turbans come in full force and retreat after the prisoners are captured.

On the contrary, even if they fight three times a day and win every battle, they cannot capture many prisoners, which is somewhat inconsistent with the rebel strategy.

The rebel army does want to capture thieves, but it is better to hold the Yellow Turbans together while fighting, rather than beating the Yellow Turbans to pieces and getting into constant trouble of capturing prisoners.

After careful consideration, Guan Yu agreed with what Li Mengxi said. The rebels should make unremitting efforts to capture prisoners and consume the Yellow Turbans' vitality as efficiently as possible.

In other words, a carefully designed battle of annihilation should be fought, not just a battle of defeat.

Guan Yu did not agree with Li Mengxi's strategy of using all cavalry to cooperate with the infantry in pulling nets and catching people. Guan Yu believed that at least half of the cavalry should be kept as backup in case something changes.

Li Mengxi thought about it and realized that this method was very safe.

It has been discussed that the cavalry should cooperate with the infantry in combat, but how to cooperate is still a difficult problem.

If a hundred cavalry can be as good as one, then a hundred or ten cavalry can be enough to form a large net, driving out the defeated soldiers in the net with no place to hide, just like a pack of wolves driving a flock of sheep.

But nowadays, although all the cavalry are elite, they do not have unified training. They can fight in scattered battles. It is no problem to charge in a rough group. However, with more advanced cooperation and encirclement, the rebel cavalry may not be able to do it.

As a last resort, Guan Yu and Li Mengxi discussed a compromise tactic. Since it is difficult for a hundred cavalry to cooperate with each other, then if ten cavalry cooperate, the difficulty will be much lower. If two cavalry cooperate, the difficulty will be even lower and there is no threshold.

Since it is necessary to encircle and intercept the defeated troops and prevent them from escaping, the encirclement is naturally from all four sides. Since it is four sides, at least four cavalry and small teams must cooperate to encircle the defeated troops one by one in one direction, dividing and surrounding the routed troops.

in each small area.

With the cooperation of four cavalry, the difficulty is neither high nor low, and the rebel cavalry can handle it.

The round-up tactics are in place.

When discussing more details, Guan Yu said that when you want to frighten a retreating army, it is best to use force to intimidate it.

"How to deter him?" Li Mengxi asked.

"Kill a man," Guan Yu said calmly, "jump his horse and chop off his head with a sword, and the blood will fly from his head, and the rest of the defeated troops will be terrified."

"Oh." Li Mengxi thought thoughtfully. Is it so bloody? "Then if you cut off a person's head, then take his head and throw it in front of the defeated soldiers, wouldn't it be a stronger deterrent?"

Guan Yu nodded and agreed with Li Mengxi's statement.

Li Mengxi couldn't help but look at Guan Yu's arms. Guan Yu's arms were thicker than his own waist. Li Mengxi said, "If you were like General Guan and used a sixty-four-pound sword, you could split a person in half with one blow and remove all the liver and intestines."

"Sa, isn't this a powerful deterrent? With just one person, General Guan, can't he deter more than a thousand people?"

This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Guan Yu laughed and said, "That's right!"

Li Mengxi finally understood how fierce Guan Yu was. On the battlefield with cold weapons, cutting off the enemy's head would have an average visual impact and not have a big impact on the enemy's morale. However, splitting a person in half would be too scary.

The timid ones were so frightened that they couldn't move, and the bold ones were so frightened that their hearts skipped a beat, especially when they blocked the rout, the rout soldier who was running fast in front was broken into two halves.

How many have the guts to run?

It turns out that the key to deterring defeated troops is cruelty.

Anyway, if you are not cruel and polite, you can stand there and shout, "Don't run away. If we don't kill the Yellow Turbans, we will have something to eat with our rebels."

Guarantee, not a single one of the defeated troops will be left. We are all enemies. If you say you won’t kill the Yellow Turbans, who will believe you?

On the cold weapon battlefield, brutality and blood are simple and easy to use.

The details of how to efficiently capture prisoners were obtained. The cavalry stopped at the front, used their horse power to charge, cut off the head of the person with a knife, then picked up the head with a gun, and threatened the soldiers to surrender to avoid death. At this time, they were frightened.

The two groups of defeated soldiers lost their will to resist.

Thinking of this, Li Mengxi inexplicably thought of himself and his brother. He and his brother were also members of the Yellow Turbans before.

If unfortunately, they encounter the official army and the Yellow Turbans are defeated, they will take their younger brother with them. They are so panicked that they don’t know where to run, and bump into the official cavalry. The official army will use this method of deterrence to deter the defeated troops, and raise their hands.

The knife fell, and the two brothers' heads rolled to the ground. At that moment, the angle of view rolled with the heads, and the sky and the earth were dizzy. It was fine that he was dead, but Xiao Brick...

If there was another woman carrying a baby on her back, she was unfortunately stopped by the cavalry. If the cavalry was ordered to kill and intimidate, they would shoot the woman and the baby behind her with one shot.

The poor little baby was still crying after being impaled by the gun, and its little hands and feet were still moving for a long time...

Thinking of this, Li Mengxi felt bad.

He stared at Guan Yu solemnly, "General Guan, in an emergency, there is no harm in killing the enemy to intimidate them. However, you and I have already concluded that the Yellow Turbans are also poor people.

Your cavalry can only kill men, not women, especially children. I can't bear this!

Please ask General Guan to send a military judge to supervise it. If anyone sees that it is a child and cuts it with a knife, I will kill him immediately!"

Li Mengxi's voice was slightly cold.

Guan Yu looked directly at Li Mengxi for a long time, nodded and said, "Those who kill women and children deserve to die. I will make it clear to the cavalry."

Guan Yu was a gentleman and kept his word. Since Guan Yu said he would issue strict orders, he was certainly not wrong.

On the battlefield, if you say you didn't see clearly, killing a woman is still excusable.

However, the child is just that tall and can be distinguished at a glance. Besides, the child is short and difficult to attack from a horse. What is the purpose of going out of your way to attack a child?

When the cavalry surrounded the defeated troops, the details of killing and deterrence came into being. Women were not allowed to be killed because the view was blocked, and it was impossible to determine which woman would be carrying a baby behind her back. Children were especially not allowed to be killed. This was a prohibition. Who knew?

If you kill a child, chop off his head.

No matter who Li Mengxi wants to behead, I, the King of Heaven, will not be able to stop him.

Li Mengxi asked again, if people want to kill people as a deterrent, then what should be used to kill them?

Li Mengxi always has weird problems.

Guan Yu glanced at Li Mengxi and said, "All swords, guns, bows and crossbows can kill people."

Li Mengxi sighed, and still had a question, "Both swords, guns, and crossbows can be used, so which one is best?"

Guan Yu was silent for a long time, "Behead with one knife, the knife is good."

"Not necessarily." Li Mengxi frowned, "Both crossbows and crossbows are good. Crossbows can hit far, but swords can only hit close. Bows and crossbows are also intimidating and cannot replace swords and guns."

"Hmm." Guan Yu snorted, which was regarded as acknowledgment of Li Mengxi's words.

Li Mengxi drew a simple diagram of a crossbow on the ground with a thin stick, muttering to himself as he drew, "But a crossbow is a deterrent, how can it be a deterrent? A crossbow kills people, but there is not much blood..."

It’s not a deterrent enough.”

Hearing Li Mengxi talking to himself, Guan Yu suddenly had an inspiration. Guan Yu's eyes lit up, "You can use Ming Di!"

"What?" Li Mengxi looked up blankly.
To be continued...