Chapter 251 Can't let cowardly soldiers stand in front [Chapter 1]
The General's Mansion in Pingcheng is like a small military city. When planning, Dong Hu considered that Datong City was an important border town, and it would definitely be similar to the cities in the three counties of Hetao in the future. There would definitely be many Hu people living in the city. If countless people rebel on a large scale in the city, no matter how strong the city is, it would be easy to break through the city from the inside out. This is the most likely place where Hu and Han live together.
If a large-scale rebellion is caused from the inside out, if the entire solid city falls, the City Lord's Mansion will not be of much use no matter how solid it is. The purpose of building the City Lord's Mansion into a small military city is not to resist large-scale rebellion, but to the risk of some minority people, and this kind of adventure accounts for 90% of the rebellion of the frontier cities.
The City Lord's Mansion is like a small military city or palace city, but due to time, it is still just a prototype. It looks like a community, and there are only adobe houses in the community.
A group of veterans were discussing the military. Kuwai, who was holding his son, only acted as a clay sculpture, allowing a group of veterans to discuss the deployment of soldiers in the Hutang Commander's Hall...
"This is the situation. Huwa blocked the thief's retreat in the east. If the thief cannot kill him, he must have run to us. He must have thought of running away from Qiangyin City..."
"The third brother is right. Those Xianbei people can't escape from the east, so they must escape from the west. Everyone is discussing how we should kill the thieves!"
Before Yao Shan could finish his words, Yao Yong looked at everyone in a muffled voice. Yao Shan was so angry that he glared at the second brother, and the old man was secretly amused.
"Ahem."
Yang Yi covered his mouth and coughed twice, just waiting to speak...
"Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
The son in Kuwa's arms was "ahhh" for a while, and his two little hands were wide open, as if he was about to hug him. Yang Yi was overjoyed and hurriedly got up and came to Kuwa. Kuwa had no other intentions and sent his son to the old man.
"hehe……"
Yang Yi sat on his thighs, a child who was much fatter than an ordinary child, and grinned, "The younger brother was almost the same as the tiger's wife when she was young, and he would definitely be a powerful general in the future!"
When Yao Yong saw Yang Yi holding his little lord in his arms, he felt a little savored: "Then you should say that with the skills we teach the tiger baby, any tiger baby's baby is a powerful general in the formation!"
Yang Yi's beard raised slightly and snorted coldly: "Your abilities are worthy of saying it?"
"you……"
"Okay! The military is discussing!"
Seeing that his brother was about to confront Yang Yi, Yao Shan couldn't help but stop him. Looking at the doll that was shaking his head, there was a little smile on his face.
"The body of Xiao Erzi is almost the same as that of Hu Wa when he was young. He will definitely be a brave general in the future, but this is nothing. Learning Hu Wa's ability to command troops is the real ability!"
The old men nodded silently, and they never thought that the doll they watched since childhood had made a huge fortune.
"Tiger kids are better than us old people, so we don't have to worry too much about children's affairs. Let's discuss what's happening right now."
Yao Shan said, "Dong Yao, Dong Xin, Hu San and others will need at least five days to come to Pingcheng. Even if 30,000 Erlang returns to Pingcheng, if 20,000 soldiers in the city, there will be only 50,000 soldiers and horses. What about the Xianbei thieves? Including their captives, there are as many as 60,000 to 70,000, and the Xianbei thieves are still riding war horses. With our 50,000 Erlang, let alone stopping 60,000 or 70,000 thieves, I am afraid that there will be great danger in fighting with them."
Yang Yi held a doll and pondered...
"Dashan is right. Although 40,000 or 50,000 out of the 60,000 to 70,000 are Wuwan and Han people captured, we all know that if the Xianbei people drive them away with knives, 40,000 or 50,000 thieves will still dare to fight with us. If we don't have 100,000 soldiers, it will be difficult to fight outside their city."
Dong San frowned and said, "That's right, but where can we have enough soldiers? The Qiang people captured by the big leader were too short, and no one could guarantee whether they would rebel in the face of the battle after seeing the Xianbei people."
A bunch of old men frowned and silent...
"If a man doesn't work, then we will use women!"
Yao Yong spoke heavily, everyone was stunned, and then he couldn't help but nod.
"Didn't the big leader also use women from Ganlang Valley for his soldiers? We agree to recruit some women, preferably those Xiongnu and Qiang women who marry the soldiers!"
Dong Si nodded and said, "We agree with the third brother's words, but we think... the thieves are in power. If they attack our ten thousand military camp, it would be extremely difficult to have only two or three thousand old and weak who could barely resist, and it would be easy to have other thoughts from the Huns in the army camp. It would be better to take advantage of the time now to let the various military camps gather together, at least there must be ten thousand old and weak who can resist the thieves in each place."
Dong San agreed: "We agree with the words of the fourth brother. Anyway, the food, cattle and sheep are gathered in Pingcheng, Jiancheng, Mayi, and the old and weak in the military camps directly moved in. Moreover, we can also draw 50,000 young and strong women, all of whom can draw bows and shoot arrows. We don't let them stand in front directly."
The elderly in the hall had all fought wars and knew what was going on on the battlefield.
There is a "saw formation" in the Roman military formation. The saw formation is actually a linear formation. When the two armies were fighting head-on, only the front row of soldiers were fighting fiercely on both sides. The front row was like a saw cut back and forth, and like a millstone crushing countless lives.
The saw formation or linear formation is a competition of consumption, a competition between human life and will, but the biggest feature of the saw formation is that the front-line soldiers are fighting fiercely, while the soldiers behind are safe, or have a high degree of safety.
Using saw formation to fight to fight means a war of attrition, which will cause more casualties and injuries to both sides. Usually, the generals of both sides are unwilling to fight this war of attrition, but this is not absolute. Once the general uses such a consumable army, it means that there are too many new soldiers or miscellaneous soldiers in the army, in order to avoid the soldiers behind timidly escaping and let the timid soldiers adapt to the battlefield of fighting.
Similarly, the 50,000 women temporarily recruited in Pingcheng were like cowardly soldiers on the battlefield. If they were thrown directly onto an unprotected battlefield, they might just need a charge and run away in all directions. But if there were 50,000 warriors in front of them blocking the enemy's swords and allowing them to shoot archery rains behind them. After adapting to the fierce battlefield for half an hour, even if these women were allowed to fill the gap in the soldiers who died in battle, they would instinctively not afraid to fill the space with their spears.
The battle formation has not yet begun, and countless iron cavalry came to the top, this is the time to test the courage of others and the time to collapse. However, when the two sides really fight together, the tension will be reduced, especially when the two sides are evenly matched or if they are the best, the tension and cowardice will be replaced by instinct and excitement.
Dong Yao, Dong Xin, and Hu San followed Dong Hu to fight north for four or five years. There were only a few battles of more than 10,000 people. The "Han soldiers" were all captured Yellow Turban Army and fought on the battlefield. It has been a year or two since they arrived in Bingzhou. They have been training the military formation for so long. Although the single fighting skills are still a little worse than the elite troops in the Meiyang Han Soldier Camp. These Han soldiers can fight head-on with the Xianbei people. With them in front, the 70,000 soldiers in Pingcheng can walk out of the city, forming a 100,000 army and Putou, and 60,000 to 70,000 people in the wild.
The old people have been on the battlefield and have been in the army for several years. They know what the war is. They know that if the cowardly soldiers are allowed to stand in front, even if there are soldiers who are holding a big sword behind them, the two armies will quickly collapse due to the cowardly soldiers when fighting.
Because the soldiers were cowardly and fearful, the three-row military formations in the first row were all older and had experienced more battle formations. They were not afraid of facing the pressure of the enemy army formations. The second row was young and strong, and the combat formations had a slightly worse experience. The third row was elite among the elites and reserve soldiers. The reason for this kind of military formation was that Dong San said that "not letting them stand in front" was that they could not let cowardly and fearless soldiers stand in front.
Listening to Dong San and Dong Si's words, Yao Shan nodded silently...
"Twenty thousand Xianbei people just captured Wuwan people, Han people were captured, and Xianbei people could not give these captive horses. This would make all the prisoners who had just captured run away. And the twenty thousand Xianbei people would never be on the front line and would never act as the vanguard of the 100,000 army, because the Xianbei cavalry was too damaged and would definitely not be able to control 40,000 to 50,000 prisoners. It is not uncommon to be killed by the prisoners with great resentment."
"So, the final battle must be a battle between infantry and infantry. The 20,000 Xianbei cavalry occupies the left and right three wings of 40,000 to 50,000 prisoners, forcing all the prisoners to kill our 100,000 sons!"
Just in Yaoshan, I still have to speak...
"cut!"
"Can 40,000 prisoners who are unwilling to fight to the death break through our military formation?"
Yao Yong was very disdainful and pulled the corners of his mouth. As a veteran, he knew very well what kind of danger a cowardly and fearful person would be placed on the front line. This was the case of his own soldiers. No matter how scared the soldiers who were cowardly and fearful, they would just collapse and run away during fierce fighting, and it was not easy to raise a knife to slash him.
But if you drive away the extremely hated prisoners, and if you don’t use special methods to dispel the prisoners’ idea of turning around and killing themselves, it will be normal for the Han people to distribute weapons to the Wuwan people who dare to fight and fight, turn around and loot, and slaughter them to fight to the Xianbei people who are slaughtering them.
Yao Shan felt a little angry when he saw his brother interrupting.
"Second, why are you wailing? Can we not know the danger of the Xianbei people driving away the Wuwan people? Can we not know that the Wuwan people might commit the rebellion of the Xianbei people at the last minute?"
"snort!"
"We are talking about infantry fighting with infantry! Instead of fighting with 100,000 people and 60,000 cavalry!"
"snort!"
"Even if the Xianbei people are skillful in their means, they will let 40,000 to 50,000 Wuwan and Han prisoners obediently attack us, the Xianbei people can only drive 40,000 to 50,000 to siege us!"
"snort!"
"We have 100,000 people, and the Xianbei boys will never dare to fight with us with 20,000 cavalry. That is, we have 100,000 and 40,000 to 50,000, two to one, or one to the infantry formation. Which one are we Lintao people afraid of?"
"snort!"
Chapter completed!