At night, Li Mengxi and Liu Bei held torches and talked about the battle strategy in front of the map.

"How many cavalry should be sent to rescue the counties?"

"At least a thousand, the cavalry is best composed of many people in a team. A small number of people is not enough to convince the crowd, let alone to accomplish anything."

The cavalry had better carry more flags to increase their momentum." As he said that, Li Mengxi looked at Liu Bei and suddenly asked, "Xuan Degong, is the title of General Zhendong useful?"

Liu Bei was stunned for a while before he realized who General Zhendong was referring to, "Oh! It should be easy to use."

The General of Zhendong is Liu Bei and Liu Xuande. Liu Bei is an official. He has no official residence, no servants, and no chance to show his authority. He is as busy as a dog all day long and does not feel like an official at all. Liu Bei often

He forgot that he was General Zhendong.

Li Mengxi thought about it and used Liu Bei's seal of General Zhendong to print a batch of official documents. After the cavalry arrived at the local area, they could use the official documents to ask the local government to cooperate with the people.

Thinking of this, Li Mengxi immediately went to get ready.

I drafted the official document in a hurry, and then found someone to carve the woodblock. As long as the woodblock was carved well, thousands of official documents could be produced in a matter of seconds.

Fortunately, I was well prepared and brought along not only craftsmen but also carving masters. Unexpectedly, I actually used the carving technique.

This time we sent out more than 1,500 cavalry. After repeated battles, some were killed. At most, only 1,000 cavalry could be sent to support each county.

A thousand cavalrymen in a team of five people, that is, a team of 200 people, and a team of three to five villages can organize the manpower of six to seven hundred villages.

It is useful to use the cavalry on the spot for the commander to ask for troops, but it does not completely solve the problem.

With the commanding ability of a thousand cavalry, the six to seven hundred villages under their command are simply not enough to complete a huge encirclement spanning several counties. Therefore, it is necessary to rely on local forces in greater depth.

This time is more difficult than in Luoyang. In Luoyang, the coercion plan can still be coerced into a big one. This time, the village cannot be attacked or coerced. From the beginning to the end, it is just a small group of cavalry.

Thinking of this, Li Mengxi suddenly had an idea. It seemed wrong. It seemed that he could be "coerced" this time.

After the cavalry arrived at the local area, they first recruited ten people from the first village. Adding the original five cavalrymen, there were fifteen people. These fifteen people went to the second village to recruit again. At this time, there were fifteen people.

Now, the power is a little higher, and it is a little easier to recruit people.

Then, the strength of the troops became thirty, forty, fifty... At the back, the strength of the troops became more and more, and the people's worries about surrendering to the army became less and less.

After manpower recruitment is no longer a problem, the cavalry can use these manpower to carry out training, teach the people how to cut down trees and build rocks to block roads, and teach the people how to fight in formations. In only three to five days, three or five cavalrymen can

The method of blocking roads can be taught to hundreds of people, and hundreds of people will go back to each village to convey the news. In an instant, all the villages in the countryside can be mobilized, and in one day, all the roads and alleys in the countryside can be blocked.

live.

Blocking the bandits from invading the front line is the first step.

Then, each cavalry squad absorbed manpower, recruited young men, assigned numbers with paper flags, and began to train. During this period, the battlefield began to be laid out, and the cavalry began to serve as scouts. After checking the big and small paths, they inserted the guide flags along the road and gathered together.

Military flags were planted all over the wilderness.

Then, if the war breaks out within the territory, and the soldiers from each village march according to the flags that lead the way, as long as they follow the flags, they must be following the planned march route, and small groups of troops will inevitably converge as they walk.

Forming a large group, they must eventually gather at a key location. This is one of the essence of Zhang Jiao's method of ambush from ten sides - using flags to replace part of the command.

During the battle, if the country soldiers are defeated by the bandit soldiers and are scattered in the wilderness, the scattered country soldiers will run into the flags that have been planted everywhere. The defeated soldiers will gather under the flags, and then gather again. This is

This is the method Zhang Jiao once used to gather troops. Using this method, the Yellow Turban Army was defeated and gathered together, and its resilience was greatly improved.

Li Mengxi went to count the flags. The paper flags had been printed in Julu. The paper flags were made of extremely tough mulberry paper and were coated with tung oil to withstand strong winds and rains.

Paper flags are divided into braided flags and guide flags. The braided flags are printed with the twelve zodiac signs. With this pattern, all the people in the village can recognize it, and there is no difficulty in identification.

The guide flags are also the twelve zodiac animals, and the guide flags are much smaller.

Li Mengxi looked through the flags he carried. There were many carts of paper flags. One cart was estimated to have tens of thousands or more, enough to form an army of one million people.

After thinking about it, Li Mengxi found that there was still one missing flag - the gathering flag.

Zhang Jiao planted the "Yellow Sky" flag all over the territory of Julu. The defeated Yellow Turban troops gathered together when they saw the flag. Miraculously, they collapsed but never dispersed, and they came back again and again.

I didn't expect that the Julu Army would be considered for repeated defeats, so I didn't do it and now it's useless.

It’s not a big problem. The army also carries a lot of white paper, so just print on it.

Zhang Jiao used the "Yellow Sky" flag to gather troops, and Li Mengxi discussed with Liu Bei what to do if it was his own flag for gathering troops.

Liu Bei thought for a moment and said, "[Han], use the Han flag."

Now that we have the style of the gathering flag, the Chinese character Douda will do.

Li Mengxi asked the craftsman to carve the woodblock. He checked the paper. The largest paper carried with the army was five feet long and three feet wide. This kind of paper was considered very large for writing. It could be used as a flag, so it didn't seem too big.

Before the flag was printed, Li Mengxi immediately discovered a problem. The color was wrong. The paper was white, but the white color was not eye-catching enough.

When I was making paper, the pulp was mixed in color at first. At that time, I thought of using dyeing to cover up the variegated colors. Later, when decolorization technology made a breakthrough, the dyeing technology was of little use, so I just left it there.

Now we know the use of dyed paper. Dyed paper can be used in combat. As we all know, red is the most conspicuous, which is the same as red lights are red.

Unprepared and unprepared, we had no choice but to use white flags to gather troops.

Let’s talk about the issue of flags later, and then we’ll talk about combat issues.

No matter how weak the bandit army is, there are tens of thousands of cavalry, and it is difficult to deal with the cavalry.

As for the ceremonial power available to our side, except for the thousands of Julu cavalry, in the worst case, only the country soldiers can be used. It is difficult for the country soldiers to deal with the cavalry. Weapons are secondary, and the key is armor.

The country soldiers have poor discipline and poor fighting spirit. If one or two people are shot to death, they will collapse.

The problems we are encountering now are old problems, and the Julu Army has also encountered them before.

When hundreds of thousands of refugees surrounded Huangfu Song's 30,000-strong army, they were also worried about the lack of armor and stomach. After settling in Julu, they were also worried about what would happen if the imperial army came to conquer.

The original countermeasure was that when the rebels were still hundreds of thousands of Yellow Turban refugees, they used wooden planks and ropes to make wooden armor. Although the wooden armor could not stop strong bows and crossbows, it could still prevent one or two swords and lances from stabbing them.

After settling in Julu, the solution to the lack of armor and stomach was to use attack to counter attack.

To fight against the enemy's crossbows, in addition to increasing the armor and stomach, you can actually increase the number of crossbows. As long as the power of the enemy's crossbows can be eliminated, it means that our side will receive far fewer long-range attacks, which is equivalent to increasing protection in disguise.

ability.

Now in the late Han Dynasty, the imperial court has long been unable to control local areas. The countryside may lack armor and stomach, but there will definitely not be too few weapons such as bows and crossbows.

It is expected that after gathering the country weapons, a strong long-range force can be gathered, and then the long-range force can rely on the fortifications such as earthen fortifications and wood piles built on the road to attack the enemy from a distance. With the help of the fortifications, the enemy can be severely defeated.

Then, what should we do after we defeat the rebel army?

Of course, counterattack.

When it comes to the counterattack, it is different from defending on the ground. The people are fighting in front of their own homes. There is no worry of getting lost or low morale. The battle area is not large, and it is not difficult to command the cavalry.

But if we counterattack forward, the scope of the battle will suddenly expand, and the difficulty of command will also increase sharply, to the point that even those who are unfamiliar with the place will not be able to figure out the way.

At this point, the method of ambush from ten sides will still have to be used, and flags will have to be used instead of command.

On the road, guide flags were set up along the road, and the rural soldiers marched along the flags. The cavalry checked the marching route in advance, and then set up the guide flags day and night, so that teams from dozens of villages could be led to the route at the same time without command.

Designated place.

Li Mengxi once used a similar method and asked, how can a high school student put on the same formation as Han Xin?

The answer is that as long as high school students have enough time available, and as long as high school students have a hundred or even a thousand times more time than Han Xin, they can compete with Han Xin.

High school students don’t know how to direct or set up formations, but even if they don’t know how to set up formations, they can pull up ten people at a time, ten people and ten people, slowly, for ten days and a half, and they can always form a formation.

A unified formation.

According to the same method, the cavalry spent enough time to prepare in advance, and then let the results of the preparations be confirmed by flags. In this way, when dozens of soldiers followed the flags and marched along the roads and lanes to fight, they were commanded by an invisible hand.

.And this invisible hand was carefully arranged by the giant deer cavalry for many days and nights.

This is just like high school students to Han Xin. High school students don’t know how to form a formation, but as long as they have enough time, they can put up a decent formation. Similarly, the cavalry may not have the ability to command, but they have plenty of time.

In addition, with the method of using flags instead of command, arrangements can be made in advance, which allows the cavalry who are unable to fight a battle in one day to spend many days and prepare to command a battle.

The question discussed is, since we can counterattack, and since we want to counterattack, when will we counterattack?

There is a tactic in defending the city. There is a saying in Lu's Spring and Autumn Period, "Ten thousand people wield bows and shoot with one move, and all of them will hit." This means that concentrated fire attack has the highest killing efficiency.

The same seems to be true for large-scale strategic actions. If there is no synchronized counterattack, and 100,000 people are divided into ten teams, and only one team attacks each time, then it means that there are only 10,000 people in each attack, and the enemy only has to deal with these 10,000 people.

That’s it.

And if 100,000 people are divided into ten teams to attack at the same time, the enemy will have to deal with ten teams at the same time. The enemy will be unable to respond, and at the same time, the pressure on our army will be greatly reduced.

Therefore, the counterattack time must be unified.

The question arises, after the Julu cavalry arrives in each county, how long does it take to stifle the enemy's offensive, how long does it take to reach a stalemate, and how long does it take to train the troops to be able to counterattack?

Li Mengxi thinks it will take at least one and a half months.

You can agree on a time with the cavalry in advance. When the time comes, the troops from each county will counterattack at the same time.

"There is a problem here," Liu Bei frowned after hearing Li Mengxi's plan. "Although all the ministries are counterattacking at the same time, the distances are different, and each ministry is advancing at different speeds. Within a few days, there must be a front and a back.

In a few days, someone will reach far and wide alone.

The encirclement formation stretched for several counties, and once a section was defeated, the enemy troops took advantage of the opportunity to break in, and the entire line would be destroyed.

Now, what should we do?”

Li Mengxi frowned and thought, "Also, along the counterattack route, flags of gathering troops were planted. Even though the local soldiers were defeated, they could gather themselves and fight again."

This is the method. Assuming that the country soldiers are as weak as the Yellow Turbans, even if they are as weak as the Yellow Turbans, this method can still resist.
To be continued...