Mrs. Wu sent Yuan Xi out and then closed the door. There was a war between heaven and man in her heart.
She understood that there were not many options left for her at the moment, because she had no bargaining chips at all.
Yuan Xi calculated that he had already made enough concessions to her, because if Yuan Xi really used force, Mrs. Wu could die, but what about Axiang?
But Yuan Xi never mentioned a word about Axiang from beginning to end, indicating that the other party did not want or disdain the daughter to threaten her.
But if the child is born...
Mrs. Wu gently pressed her lower abdomen, as if she could feel something that didn't exist, and her heart was filled with mixed feelings.
As soon as Yuan Xi went out, he noticed that several eyes staring at the house disappeared instantly. The sounds of footsteps, windows closing, and low voices sounded one after another, and then disappeared one after another.
He shook his head and returned to the room. He saw Zhen Mi leaning against the window, looking at him with a half-smile but not a smile, and said, "Ma'am, did you agree?"
Yuan Xi smiled bitterly and said, "Whatever you say, just let nature take its course."
"She is also a miserable person. From now on, tell Zhao Ji and the others not to ask about things they shouldn't ask, so that she can live with peace of mind."
Zhen Mi listened and nodded thoughtfully, "I understand."
Two days later, Yan Rou came back from Yongnu with more than 4,000 soldiers and horses under his command.
Yuan Xi and Tian Yu went to the camp to check and found that less than half of them were cavalry, all of whom were skilled in riding, shooting and controlling horses.
Yuan Xi thought to himself that Yan Rouxian Yufu had no secrets. Looking at his long bow and sword, he knew that he was the most capable of fighting. According to the ratio of cavalry to cavalry in the Northland of one to five, it was not easy to gather nearly two thousand cavalry. of.
Most of these cavalry were composed of border residents from the North, and most of the horses they rode were domestically raised. The horse breeds were quite good. Youzhou was originally a place that produced good horses. It was rich in tall horses, which were good for charging in battle formations. Therefore, the extremely famous cavalry appeared. Wuhuan suddenly rode.
Taishi Ci once mentioned to Yuan Xi that when he was young, he avoided disaster in Liaodong and learned the tactics of the Wuhuan and Xianbei cavalry, improving his own shooting skills to a very high level.
The only thing these cavalry lack is that almost none of them have armor, and most of them wear leather jackets.
Yuan Xi turned to Yan Rou and asked: "Isn't Youzhou a place where iron is produced? Why don't they wear armor? Is it because armor is too expensive?"
Yan Rou explained: "There is indeed a part of the reason."
"Also, most people find it very inconvenient to ride and shoot while wearing armor."
"There are two thousand cavalry and hundreds of Wuhuan cavalry. They can only cover the vital points with armor, because they are responsible for charging and the others are responsible for harassment."
After hearing this, Yuan Xi asked: "The Northland cavalry's tactics are that the light cavalry with bows and arrows are responsible for long-range harassment, waiting for the enemy's formation to collapse, and then charging with the cavalry?"
"Isn't it troublesome to cooperate with these two types of cavalry?"
"Why can't we both ride and shoot and charge?"
Yan Rou nodded and said, "The envoy does understand this very well."
"Actually, it comes down to the issue of armor."
"Charging requires wearing armor, but after wearing armor, most people are wearing armor, and their archery speed and flexibility will suddenly decrease."
Yuan Xi said: "Even if armor can significantly reduce casualties?"
Yan Rou smiled bitterly and said: "The purpose of riding and shooting on horseback is to avoid contact with the enemy. Once you are within the enemy's range, you must be extremely vigilant. Try to stay away from the enemy."
"At this time, mobility and flexibility are more important than protection."
Yuan Xi spoke up: "Brother Yan, does he know about the Battle of Jieqiao?"
"If I ask my brother to lead two thousand cavalry to replace Gongsun Zan's white-horse followers, does he have a better way?"
Yan Rou knew that Yuan Xi was testing herself, so she didn't dare to neglect it and started thinking hard.
There was no reason why he didn't pay attention to this. The Yuan family's fierce tiger's name was extremely loud. He had defeated Baima Yicong several times. Yan Rou didn't dare to respond casually, lest it would be considered perfunctory.
He thought for a while, then raised his head and said, "Although I have some ideas, with the current state of the cavalry, I'm afraid it won't be possible."
Yuan Xi said: "Let's take a look."
Yan Rou spoke up: "I remember that it was Qu Yi's men who defeated Baima Yicong in the Battle of Jieqiao."
"It was a mistake for Baima Yi to charge into the formation, and it cannot be said that Yan Gang, who led the army, was not good at it. He suffered a disadvantage because he did not discover the crossbowmen under Qu Yi. He only wanted to use the charge to defeat the enemy's morale in one fell swoop, so he fell into the trap."
"If it were me, I would have no choice but to use light cavalry to harass the opponent's flanks and rear, and then Wuhuan's cavalry to break in from the side. I can never face the enemy head-on."
Yuan Xi asked again: "What should I do if the other party also has cavalry?"
After hearing this, Yan Rou smiled bitterly and said, "Then it depends on whose armor is strong, whose weapons are sharp, and whose morale is high."
"In the end, we still have to compete with infantry. This is the decisive factor that determines victory or defeat on the battlefield most of the time."
"Baima Yicong was defeated because of the single function of his troops. After being restrained by the enemy, he was unable to respond to counterattacks."
After hearing this, Yuan Xi said: "Brother Yan, what do you mean, all the arms in the battle formation must work together, and if any one of them goes wrong, it may lead to failure?"
Yan Rou lowered his head and said, "This is just Mo Jiang's naive idea."
After hearing this, Yuan Xi sighed: "Brother Yan is right, but there is a big problem."
"It is already extremely difficult to train a single type of military service, let alone the coordination between several types of military services."
After Yan Rou heard this, he stopped talking.
Yuan Xi saw it and said, "General, please tell me everything you know."
Yan Rou said: "The method of training soldiers is indeed the most important factor in determining the strength of soldiers."
"But Shijun seems to be thinking about this matter a little more complicatedly."
"Your Majesty, please look at these people in front of you. In fact, they have no training at all. They were able to follow the last general, Xian Yufu and others, defeat Gongsun Zan's general Zou Dan, and kill thousands of people."
Yuan Xi became interested, "How did Brother Yan do it?"
Yan Rou said hurriedly: "Your Majesty is also a person who knows the military. To talk about giving advice is really arrogance of the general."
"The general knew that his skills were very superficial, so he adopted the simplest method."
"Concentrate all your strength and concentrate on breaking through the enemy's weakest point."
"I was in front of the battle at that time. The strength of the enemy and ours was actually about the same, but the mentality was actually very different."
"Zou Dan needs to defeat us and then go to Yijing to support Gongsun Zan, so he not only has to win, but he can't lose too much."
"That's not the case here."
"I just need to defeat him regardless of the loss."
"So I told the soldiers, win this battle and you can go home."
"After spending a huge price to rush into Zou Dan's army and bring both sides into a life-and-death situation, the soldiers on both sides had no choice but to move forward if they wanted to survive."
"Under this pressure, Zou Dan's soldiers obviously began to worry about gains and losses. Even if they win, there will still be an unknown battle waiting for them in Yijing."
"My soldiers are different. If they win, it will be the last battle."
"So the situation gradually became one-sided, and my side slowly accumulated a victory. In the end, Zou Dan was defeated."
"Forgive me to be honest, at that time it was all a melee in small groups, and no military formation coordination method could be used."
Yuan Xi felt enlightened after hearing this.
The example Yan Rou mentioned was actually quite extreme. He brought the two sides to a level, then punched each other to see who fell first.
In a real battlefield, from the psychology of both sides, to mental goals, to the comparison of the bottom line of endurance, to the cooperation of small groups of troops, there are too many things that I need to think deeply about.
First of all, from the psychological game point of view, on the battlefield, both sides must know themselves and the enemy. If they want to restrain the other party, they must make the other party misjudge.
What Yan Rou said is to use the strongest force to penetrate the enemy's weakest point when the strength of both sides is transparent.
If the enemy naturally knows this, he will have to plan before the battle. In order to confuse the enemy, he will have to hide his strength.
Show weakness and hide your edge.
Just like that day when Qu Yi defeated Baima Yi Cong, he hid his first dead soldiers behind a shield.
This caused Yan Gang to misjudge and thought that the soldiers behind the shield were just ordinary soldiers. However, when he got closer, he realized that the soft persimmon had turned into a hard nail, and he had stepped into Qu Yi's trap.
Finally, on the battlefield, just like the large-scale melee that Yan Rou said, the two sides clashed together, and only three or five people could take care of each other. At this time, the combat power based on this number of people determined the victory or defeat on the battlefield!
A word suddenly popped into Yuan Xi's mind, Qi Jiguang's Mandarin Duck Formation!
Although the enemy troops on the opposite side are not Japanese pirates and cannot forcefully use Qi Jiguang's weapons, the principle is the same.
Just like spear formations are not suitable for mountains and sword and shield soldiers are not suitable for plains, in complex terrain and complex situations, several types of arms can exert greater strength than the same types of arms if they cooperate with each other.
In complex terrain like Montenegro, large-scale military formations may be counterproductive, but the cooperation between small teams will play a greater role!
After I go back, I have to have a good talk with Jushu about military training.
Finally, there is the psychological game between both parties.
It is best to let the opponent misjudge and take the initiative to reveal flaws. These skills rely on pre-war planning. Many times the outcome of the war is decided before the war.
The reason why Yuan Xi is so urgent is that the time left for him is too short and there are too few opportunities. He will most likely have to face the Montenegro Army alone next.
But so far, he has almost never fought a big battle relying solely on his own strength.
From the defeat of Tian Kai Gong Sun Zan to Sun Ce, Yuan's army was the main force, and Yuan Xi was only a support.
As for defeating the Montenegrin army that attacked Beixin City, they also relied on defending the city to counterattack and accidentally swaying the opponent's military morale with rumors, and they won in one fell swoop.
But things will be different next. Yuan Xi has to rely on his own troops to enter Montenegro and face alone Zhang Yan, who is now as famous as Lu Bu and one of the two great flying generals, and the hundreds of thousands of Montenegrin troops under his command.
Jizhou may send troops when the time comes, but with Yuan Shang still here, Yuan Xi cannot expect the other party to do his best to help him, but must guard against the other party causing obstacles.
To deal with the power of the Montenegrin Army, a multi-pronged approach is needed to gain the few chances of victory with a small gain.
Thinking of this, Yuan Xi thought that if the situation hadn't forced him, he really wouldn't have wanted to send troops so hastily, but this was also a difficult period at the beginning of his business, and he couldn't escape the past.
When Cao Cao started his career, he faced many more difficulties than himself. After a series of bloody battles throughout his life, he gradually improved his strength and finally stood out in the competition among the princes.
The waves wash away the sand, and the fire refines the gold.
Yuan Xi wanted to open up the passage south from Youzhou, so he could only use the fierce fire of the Black Mountain Army to test his own merit.
When the time comes, whether it turns into real gold or burns into nothingness depends on what you have accumulated over the years!
Thinking of this, he said sincerely to Yan Rou: "There will be a big battle in Youzhou next, please help me, brother Yan."
(End of chapter)
