Since the counterattack against Yin began, the immediate problem standing in front of the soldiers of various tribes was the issue of intelligence.

When the army goes out, they first know the route. However, as a foreign army, the Julu Army is unfamiliar with the place. Even if they recruit country people as guides, the people in the country may have never traveled far and frequently in their lives.

Changing the guide will greatly affect the marching efficiency.

The most efficient pathfinding method for marching operations is to combine guides with scouts, with the scouts as the vanguard, and the scouts acting as the eyes and ears of the army to find the way for the army. However, the problem is that there are not enough scouts.

There are only five Julu soldiers in each team to help defend the counties. These five people have to help the villagers build defense lines, collect food, grass and weapons, recruit troops, train troops, and strictly observe discipline. Therefore, in the combat manual, each team has

The five rural soldiers have their respective duties divided in detail. Each team of five rural soldiers has one recruiting officer, one training officer, one military judge, one grain requisitioning officer, and the last remaining one is the scout.

In each place, the Julu Army has only one scout. The area is unfamiliar to people, and a mere scout is completely unqualified for the task of leading the army. However, the scout cannot figure out the road conditions in one day, which does not mean that spending three days

It took ten days and I still couldn’t figure out the road conditions.

The Julu Army was stationed in various places for a month, and the scouts were also busy outside for a full month. Relying on the super mobility of the horses, the scouts could explore hundreds of miles in one day, three hundred miles in three days, and in as long as a month

In a long span of time, the scouts are enough to explore all the roads, large and small, in a radius of dozens or hundreds of miles.

This is another application of the essence of the method of ambush from all sides. The results of the efforts of the scouts are accumulated. Three hundred scouts can lead the way, and one scout can lead the way even if it takes him a month.

During the first few dozen or even hundreds of miles of the march, no matter which road the troops took, they would definitely find the guide marks left by the scouts on the roadside.

There were a total of two sets of signs left by the scouts, one was a paper flag to guide the way, and the other was the old method of planting branches and laying stones. According to the ideas of Li Mengxi and others, double guarantee was more reliable. As a result, the senior management obviously misjudged the situation.

According to Zhang Fei's experience in Luoyang, when Zhang Fei was in Luoyang, he used the name of the government to set up a flag to gather troops, and threatened the people that anyone who dared to move the flag would be punished with death. In Luoyang, the people were really frightened. Not only did they not dare

If you touch the flag indiscriminately, you are afraid that if the flag disappears, the government will blame you and have to send someone to guard it day and night.

There is a precedent here. The senior officials of the Julu Army believe that using the same method, they should be able to prohibit the people from doing random acts of destruction. However, whether Li Mengxi or Zhang Liu Bei was imprisoned, they ignored it. The situation is different. In Luoyang, they can intimidate the people.

, can also intimidate the people in the counties and countryside, but this time, the Julu Army's intimidating power was diluted by the Julu Army's many righteous deeds to win people's hearts and establish credibility.

The common people saw that the Julu Army acted benevolently and righteously, and received the medicinal materials sent by the Julu Army. When they heard the Julu Army's words, "Whoever dares to move the flag will be beheaded," the common people did not believe in the Julu Army.

The military will kill people easily.

The paper produced in Julu is a rare thing, and paper flags are planted everywhere. When the people see it, they want to take it home without being secretive. There are many people who take action for this. Then, the flag is stolen, even if

The Julu soldiers know who stole the flag, but there is no way to punish them, because the flag is a small matter, and quarreling with the villagers is a big deal. All the Julu soldiers know clearly that the iron rule is - assisting in defense is a small matter, but people are worried about it.

Da, no matter what, I would rather lose the battle than offend the people or have any enmity with the people.

There is such an iron law above our heads. If the flag is stolen, it is stolen. At most, we can only give a verbal warning. Well, when the common people saw that the Julu Army had such a good attitude, they became even more unscrupulous.

As a large number of flags were stolen, the theft became more and more serious, and the paper flag arrangement was completely useless.

There are bad people among the masses. Li Mengxi always thinks of the good things about the people. He ignores the complexity of human nature. Only kindness and justice without intimidation are not enough to control people's hearts 100%.

With only one marking system left, the remaining set of markings still completed the task perfectly.

The marks left by the scouts on the roadside are like this. The scouts followed the idea of ​​the twelve zodiac flags and used the twelve zodiac signs to program in twelve. The specific method is to start from the starting point and move forward along the road, every hundred Ten steps away, leave a mouse mark on the roadside, a hundred and ten steps away, a tiger mark, a hundred and ten steps away, a rabbit mark, and so on.

After the first round was completed, only ten markers were used, and more than two miles were marked forward.

Then, if you advance to two digits, you can mark one hundred and forty-four places. If you advance to three digits, multiply by twelve. By the time you reach four or five digits, you will have enough to mark hundreds of miles. .

A team of rural soldiers marched on the winding road. The Julu Army officer leading the team in front walked and stopped from time to time, and was busy flipping up and down on his horse.

There was another dry branch piled diagonally on the road ahead. The officer rushed closer and saw two small words "PIG MONKEY" carved on the ground near the branch.

Seeing this handwriting, although he didn't know the way or where he was, and there were no scouts following him, the centurion knew that he was probably not going the wrong way.

After walking a little further, I saw writings in front of me, and the writings were in order, which showed that the route we were traveling on was exactly the route guided by the scouts.

For most teams, in the initial march stage, because the intelligence support was detailed enough, there were almost no major mistakes. However, some teams found that the markers on the roadside were out of order as they walked. Once they lost their direction, they marched like headless flies. Not knowing where to go, the commander, who thought he had lost his way, sent out investigators to inquire about the situation. However, after walking only a few miles, they encountered another sign on the side of the road.

The reason for the confusion is that roads extend in all directions and crisscross each other. If you walk along one road, you will inevitably encounter the other roads.

In the mark system left by the scouts, when the order of marks is confused, the remedy is very simple. You only need to search around, find the largest number, and just go forward and leave it correctly.

Regardless of the direction of the road, in general, the marks left by the scouts on the road are heading in the same direction, and all roads will eventually lead to the same destination.

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On the first day of the counterattack, fighting broke out sporadically in various counties.

A team of rural soldiers marched steadily for half a day without encountering any accidents after setting off. In the afternoon, when the people and horses of the team that had been walking for half a day were tired, suddenly, there was a faint rumble coming from somewhere. The village soldiers were still surprised at the sound of the sound. The commander with rich combat experience listened carefully and his expression immediately changed.

(Not good! Enemy encountered!) The commander's heart skipped a beat.

If you can immediately realize that there is a situation, it is over. The commander is just an ordinary cavalryman of the Julu Army. Before this time, he had no experience in commanding combat. Although he had been trained in the countryside for a month, in such a short time

The training is not enough to equip them with the ability to react quickly when facing an enemy.

When the incident came to an end, the commander panicked. His mind went blank. When he glanced at the marching column behind him, his eyes were blank.

After a while, the commander came to his senses and shouted with a slightly trembling voice, "Prepare... prepare, the enemy is coming! The enemy is coming! Prepare to engage the enemy!"

The commander himself was extremely unsettled, with a look of panic. As the saying goes, a general is brave. When the soldiers saw the commander in such a panic, they also panicked. Fear quickly spread among the army.

The fledgling commander almost shouted that his army was defeated. When he gave orders, he had to give orders in a steady voice. He used a trembling and stuttering voice to give orders. He didn't know whether he was conveying orders or spreading fear.

With the entire army in chaos, from the commander down to the ordinary soldiers, they were in a hurry and didn't know what to do. All eyes were focused on the commander, waiting for him to make up his mind. Daily training is still useful.

When he was extremely nervous, the commander could not think of anything and could only rely on instinctive reactions. The commander only had time to issue an order to arrange the vehicle formation on the spot. In the highly nervous situation, the rural soldiers did not know how to deal with it.

After receiving an order, they immediately regarded this order as a life-saving straw. The rural soldiers dispersed in a hurry and went to make car formations. The crowd instantly became a mess.

The combat manual issued by the Julu Army to each department contained sufficiently detailed procedures and methods for arranging vehicle formations, but when things came to a close, nothing came into play.

It took a long time to talk, but everything happened very quickly. From the sudden sound of hoofbeats to the chaos of the village soldiers pulling the vehicle into chaos, everything happened in the blink of an eye.

The enemy's figure appeared, and an unknown number of cavalry appeared on the road ahead. The chaos of the village soldiers aroused the enemy's interest in fighting. The enemy cavalry leader spoke too much, and Zeng Leng drew out his short sword and said, "

Charge!" With an order, the enemy leader took the lead and charged towards the still chaotic team of rural soldiers.

The cavalry has extraordinary impact power, and the rumble of the cavalry's hooves is like muffled thunder, shocking every country soldier.

Seeing the cavalry rushing in like a hurricane, "The enemy is coming! The enemy is coming!" the rural soldiers exclaimed at the top of their lungs.

"Shoot the arrow! Shoot the arrow!" The commander anxiously issued the attack order.

Being able to move his head in a crisis, speak words, and conduct basic commands is barely enough for an officer's minimum label.

Under the pressure of survival, the rural soldiers began to fight back, and their counterattack was unorganized.

The situation at this time was that the rural soldiers were marching in a very long column. They suddenly encountered the enemy and the manpower did not have time to gather together. The only people at the front who could fight were a few cars and a dozen rural soldiers.

The enemy cavalry rushed forward in the blink of an eye. At the same time, the country soldiers only had time to shoot sparse arrows. At this time, when all the training results and all the tactical arrangements failed to be used, the main reason was

It relies on hard power to play its role.

The rural soldiers failed to organize effective resistance at all, and their strength was not shown in training at all, but in their weapons.

According to the plan of the Julu Army, each of the rural soldiers who went on an expedition was equipped with at least one crossbow, and each of them was equipped with a crossbow. This made it possible that although the rural soldiers were not in uniform formation and lacked manpower, everyone could make effective attacks.

Fight back.

Due to the strength of their weapons and good luck, a soldier from the village only had time to shoot an arrow at the enemy cavalry and missed it. By coincidence, the arrow hit an enemy cavalryman in front of him.

The horse under the seat was hit by an arrow in its neck. The galloping horse neighed and fell forward. The rider was thrown from the horse to the ground before he could react. The cavalry was rushing very fast. What followed?

The cavalry had no time to get out of the way, and the horse's hoofs stepped directly on the fallen man without any hesitation. As soon as he let out a shrill scream, he was drowned out by the sound of more hoofbeats.

The perspective turned back to the enemy side, and the companion who was close to Chi Chi was hit by an arrow and fell from his horse. The enemy leader who was rushing at the front suddenly felt suffocated and began to think about retreating.

Rumble!

The cavalry was running into the ranks of the country soldiers.

The rural soldiers failed to form a tight formation in a hurry, and the formation was broken everywhere. The enemy cavalry easily rushed in through the gaps between the vehicles. For a while, the sound of men and horses was noisy.

After a chaotic battle, the vehicle formation finally played a role. The rural soldiers were accompanied by a large number of vehicles. These vehicles lying in the middle of the road became obstacles to the cavalry attack, and also became obstacles for each of the rural soldiers.

We could rely on the defensive fortifications. The enemy leader took the lead and passed seven or eight vehicles and stabbed two rural soldiers with his sword. However, due to the obstruction of the messy vehicles, the speed of the war horses could not be slowed down.

When cavalry loses its mobility, it will become cumbersome to fight infantry at close range in complex environments.

Another spear stabbed from the side. The enemy leader relied on his rich combat experience and keen combat intuition to dodge the stabbing to the side in time when the danger came. When he wanted to fight back with his backhand, the soldier came to the back of the car.

went.

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This sudden encounter ended with the enemy retreating on their own initiative. The enemy was unable to attack. The enemy failed to directly frighten the rural soldiers into fleeing. As long as the rural soldiers still had the basic will to fight, then

It will not be easily taken advantage of by the enemy.

On the plains, cavalry chases infantry as if they were chasing infantry. But after the infantry team has many more vehicles, the situation is different. If the infantry has more carts, it becomes a tough nut to crack.

War teaches people to grow. After fighting a battle in a hurry, the commander of this team immediately noticed the shortcomings in the layout.

There is this in the combat manual: when marching, multiple empty vehicles are driven at the head of the large army. The empty vehicles move quickly and can respond quickly.

The commander did not follow the requirements in the combat manual 100%. Now that the battle was fought, the commander immediately understood the meaning.

The thief army roared in and then retreated. The commander's heart was still lingering, fearing that the thief army would attack again in the blink of an eye and be unable to resist it, so the commander issued an order to vacate the empty chariot and use the empty chariot as the vanguard.

That's good, it's not too late to fix the problem before it's too late.
Chapter completed!