"Offense instead of defense? How ridiculous." Qu Tutong sneered, with a look of disdain on his face. At the age of forty-six, he said to the thirty-eight-year-old Yin Shi in a tone of lecturing the younger generation. The teacher said: "The Turks all grew up on horses. If we defend ourselves at every level according to danger, we still have a slight chance of winning; but when it comes to fighting in the wild, our proficiency in riding and archery is comparable to that of the Sui army." It's too powerful. Now there are only 20,000 soldiers in Ganzhou. Compared with the Turkic army, there is a full difference of 280,000. If you take the initiative to attack and consume all these soldiers, the Turkic army can take advantage of the opportunity and attack. Can General Goyin afford to supply Ganzhou with grain, use the siege equipment in the treasury as weapons, and wage war on both the east and west at the same time? You don't understand anything at all."
Zhang Xutuo was the Sima in charge of the military affairs of ten states, so the matter of consolidating the military power in Ganzhou fell to Bingcao Yinshishi. During this period, the imperial court did not remove Qu Tutong, the general manager of Ganzhou. Naturally, they were unwilling to give up their military power, and the two of them fought for it many times. Now that he had the chance, Qu Tutong started to sneer.
"The funny thing is General Qu Tu. The one who doesn't understand anything is also General Qu Tu." Although Master Yin Shi is loyal and honest, it does not mean that he is weak and can be bullied. He looked at Qu Tutong with a strange expression on his face and said: "When I was fifteen years old, I followed my father in the expedition against Wei Chijun. After that, I defeated Turkic invasions many times in Youzhou. I also went north to conquer Gao Baoning several times with King Wei Zhao, and intercepted and supported him several times. His Turkic army; when King Wei Zhao became the commander, I always followed him. Every battle he commanded was participated by my Yinshi division. I fought against the Turks more than a hundred times at least. Do you think I don’t understand the Turks? Human? I curiously asked General Qutu: Have you seen more Turks in your life than I have killed?"
Yang Shanhui next to him burst out laughing.
We have been together for such a long time, of course he knew that Qu Tutong had been serving as Zuo Xunwei's cavalry general in Beijing before. Because they entered the official service too early, and the Sui Dynasty was a dynasty with many famous generals, he had no chance to make a difference in the army. , and later asked for permission to be released, but was ordered by the emperor to inspect the herds at Liangzhou Racecourse. As a result, he caught a large number of corrupt officials and made great achievements. Yang Jian felt that this man was quite upright, so he simply made him the leader of Longyou. Although the herdsman of the group soon had the post of General of Chariots and Cavalry of Marquis Youwu and General Manager of Ganzhou, these were all side jobs, and his main job was still managing horses.
And all the civil and military officials of the Sui Dynasty were able to lead troops in wars. If you pick any civil servant from the court, you can count his many achievements. In such a court, there is no need for people who specialize in horse management. Soldier?
So even though Qu Tutong was much older than them, he had never fought a single battle. What was ridiculous was that he was actually pretending to be there and teaching a lesson to the Yin Shishi who had experienced hundreds of battles. This was not self-inflicted. Humiliating?
"That's enough!" Zhang Xutuo, blushing, slammed the table and shouted, "You are already a big boss, so why fight?"
Qu Tutong's face turned red, his chest heaved with anger, and he almost lost his breath.
Zhang Dinghe looked up at the ceiling and continued to think.
Zhang Xutuo took a deep breath and asked calmly: "General Yin, please continue."
"Here!" Master Yinshi saluted and said: "The Turks are really not as scary as they imagined. They have no idea of loyalty to their emperor and patriotism. Even when the chiefs and khans are weak, they want to replace them immediately. Their purpose of fighting is to seek revenge. Wealth, and seeking wealth also realize that they do not have the will and determination to fight hard or fight to the death, but are supported by a momentum. After this momentum, they will judge whether it is worth fighting for. As long as the war continues to stalemate, they gradually become It is a personal emotion to be afraid of death; secondly, each tribe has its own plan. Since the grassland believes in the law of the jungle and the strong being respected, they are ruthless to their enemies and to their own people. If a tribal warrior is killed in battle, this tribe will either They were annexed by other tribes, or divided up by several tribes. Therefore, when the chiefs of each tribe fought, they had the heart to preserve their strength, which made the warriors of each tribe more eager to preserve themselves. Simply put, the Turks are a group of bullies. A bandit who is kind and afraid of evil will be afraid as long as you are more ruthless and evil than him. Of course, this is not the case with the soldiers of the chief such as Bujia Khan. They are usually well-fed and well-clothed and treat the chief They all have the mentality that a scholar will die for his confidant."
"It means that our main enemy is Bujia Khan's headquarters, right?" Zhang Xutuo asked.
"That's right." Master Yin Shi glanced at Zhang Dinghe and said: "General Zhang has already mentioned the situation of the Turks and various tribes, so I won't go into details. What I want to add is that the more people they have, the more , the more complex the source, a team of 10,000 people may be composed of dozens of small tribes, and each tribe has its own precautions, and each hopes that they can take advantage of each other and suffer less. Everyone is like this. How can we fight together with our hearts in mind? Even Bujia Khan, with the complicated sources of soldiers, was reluctant to let his own troops fight to the death, and wished that others would die. So in a sense "The more Turks there are, the better the war will be. If only Bujia Khan's headquarters comes, it will be an endless and hard fight."
After saying that, Master Yinshi smiled and said: "In the years when I fought with King Wei Zhao, unless it was necessary, we generally did not use miscellaneous soldiers and only attacked the headquarters of the Great Khan. As long as we killed and disrupted their formation, even if there were hundreds of thousands of Turks A large army will be defeated like a mountain. We have used this method countless times, and it can be said to be a good way to defeat the enemy."
"That's true!" After Zhang Dinghe Jian Yinshishi finished speaking, he added in a solemn tone: "It's not that the Turks don't know how to attack cities. When we are learning the riding and archery skills that the grasslands are best at, the grassland people are also learning. Our art of war and methods of attack and defense. Moreover, during the hundreds of years of war, a large number of Han people fled to Rouran and Turks. Almost all of these people were treated politely by the great khans of the two grassland dynasties. They not only gave advice to foreigners, but also taught them Alien Sinology, strategy, and military art made great contributions to the founding of Rouran and the Turks; in addition, Gao Yang's son Gao Shaoyi led a large number of craftsmen to surrender to the Turks, and Gao Baoning's heavy troops also stayed in the Turks. These craftsmen were all highly used by the Turks. So if we continue to look at the Turks from the past and say they are not good at attacking cities, we will suffer big losses sooner or later."
When Qu Tutong saw that Zhang Dinghe had also overturned all his assumptions, he became even more angry, but he stopped talking. After all, he has never been on the battlefield, how could he compare with these people who crawled out from the dead? He secretly decided in his heart that he must fight for the chance to fight, so as not to be underestimated by these bastards.
Especially the bastard Yin Shishi, who is loyal and treacherous. It was he who had the idea, so Yang Shuang burned the tomb of the ancestors of the Turks and successfully led the extremely angry Turk soldiers to Yanran Mountain to die.
Zhang Xutuo knew that he had little combat experience, and the targets he was fighting were not Turks. In this regard, Yin Shishi and Zhang Dinghe, who had been hanging out with Yang Shuang, were definitely better than him. He thought for a long time and looked at Master Yin Shi asked: "What does General Yin think about using offense instead of defense? How many soldiers are needed?"
"Our military strength is at a huge disadvantage, and we have the strategic location of Ganzhou to guard. The Turks would never have imagined that we would dare to take the initiative. The general believes that we should recruit an elite force that is good at fighting before the Turks besiege the city. The cavalry are sent out, staring at the Turkic army like wolves. As long as they get a chance to fight, they will bite off a piece of their flesh, and then retreat with one blow, making them defenseless. The number of people should not be too many, three thousand is enough, but they must be elite Among the elite.”
Zhang Xutuo frowned and said, "Three thousand? Is it too little?"
Although the pressure on Datong City is huge, the attack surface in front of the city is only so wide. Even if the enemy army has millions of troops, there is not enough terrain for them to set up their formation, so they can only come in queues instead of swarming up. . As long as he withstands the Turks' initial offensive, Zhang Xutuo can obtain a steady stream of soldiers from the rear, and the pressure will become smaller and smaller. Based on the majesty of the fortified city and the new soldiers arriving from Zhangye, he can even out five soldiers. Thousands of elite soldiers.
"Three thousand is relatively small, but the last general can contact the King of Wei. If the two armies merge, it will be different." Yin Shishi said with a smile: "It doesn't matter even if you can't contact the King of Wei. Just because the last general The main purpose is to harass the enemy's rear and buy time for the general and reinforcements, rather than to attack hundreds of thousands of enemy troops."
"Okay!" Zhang Xutuo was not an indecisive person, so he immediately said, "Then I will leave this group of strange soldiers to General Yin."
"I will obey your orders." Master Yinshi accepted the order with his hands raised.
"General Qu Tu." Zhang Xutuo looked at Qu Tu Tong, who looked ugly.
Qu Tutong, who was thinking about how to fight for the opportunity, suddenly lit up when he heard this. He stood up and saluted Zhang Xutuo with anticipation and said, "The general will be here."
Zhang Xutuo glanced at Qu Tutong and ordered: "Prepare horses for General Yin."
"(⊙o⊙)" Qu Tutong was dumbfounded.
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