In order to ensure victory in this battle, Shao Hongyuan arranged for a hundred combat teams to enter Luoxiao Mountain.
He wants to cast the net widely and focus on fishing.
In this way, he tried to find the main force of the peasant army and fight with it, and then start hand-to-hand combat to consume the effective strength of the peasant army and win.
However, everything was not as simple as he imagined.
He quickly spread the word to Zhao Yucheng's ears through the frontline reconnaissance troops of the Peasant Army using the tactics of dispersion versus dispersion.
Zhao Yucheng learned from the news coming back from the front line that the Song Army appeared in the mountains in groups one by one. It was completely different from the large groups that appeared before. They were small groups.
Zhao Yucheng quickly determined that this was Shao Hongyuan's plan to use small unit operations to increase the flexibility of the army to fight against the peasant army.
The previous experience of large units being attacked day and night by the peasant army and being unable to move even an inch made Shao Hongyuan believe that large unit operations were unreliable and small unit operations were the most reliable.
Zhao Yucheng burst out laughing.
"I thought Shao Hongyuan had any talent. His army numbered as many as five hundred, but we didn't dare to go forward and fight with him rashly. We could only harass him. But if there are only dozens of people, what's wrong with him? Isn't it possible for him? Do you think you can defeat us like this?"
Zhao Yucheng immediately ordered the soldiers on the first line of defense to let go of the first line of defense, lead these scattered small troops into the second line of defense, and then cut off their retreat.
Then concentrate the superior forces to eliminate the Song Army detachments one by one.
Let these Song soldiers come in but not get out!
In order to deal with the invasion of Song soldiers, Zhao Yucheng spent several months setting up three lines of defense in Luoxiao Mountain, preparing to use the three lines of defense to block the Song army layer by layer in case the Song army attacked Luoxiao Mountain with a strong force. Attack, try to delay the attack, and consume the Song army's food and grass.
It now seems that if the attacking Song army is not large in scale, he intends to leave no retreat for any Song soldiers who dare to go deep into the Luoxiao Mountain area.
After cutting off their retreat, these Song soldiers faced a dead end.
Either die or surrender.
The situation did not go beyond Zhao Yucheng's expectation. This Song army did not have any special action pattern.
They ventured into the mountain cautiously little by little. They were much more vigilant than the last time. Whether it was making fire or resting, many sentries were arranged.
When taking action, he would also shoot one or two arrows around from time to time to see if there were any ambush.
But it was useless, because this time the peasant army also changed its tactics. The peasant army no longer carried out sneak attacks. Those who carried out sneak attacks were insects, and real men only faced the front.
Under Zhao Yucheng's order, the peasant army guarding the main traffic road would engage in battle, but they would not be reluctant to fight. After fighting for a while, they would pretend to be defeated, retreat in defeat, and quickly disperse, while the Song soldiers would cross the first line. The first line of defense enters the area of the second line of defense.
The facts also developed in this way. The Song army that engaged the peasant army and "won" was all overjoyed and chased away. The Song army did not linger on the first line of defense without going deep.
At the same time, the peasant army also discovered the way the Song army used sounding arrows to communicate with each other.
According to observations, Xu Tong, one of the frontline command officers, found that after the firing of the sounding arrows, several small units of the Song Army often gathered together to increase their strength and pursue the peasant army.
Many peasant army troops who lured the enemy were in danger because of this. Thanks to their familiarity with the mountain roads, they escaped. However, some troops failed to escape and were surrounded by the Song Army and died heroically in battle.
So Xu Tong made the correct inference and informed Zhao Yucheng of the news. After Zhao Yucheng learned about this method, Zhao Yucheng thought of a good way.
A good way to eliminate the effective strength of the Song army.
"General Zhao asked us to use sounding arrows to attract a certain number of Song troops into a pre-prepared ambush area. When the Song troops arrived, the ambush troops would rush out together and use our superior strength to catch the Song troops off guard."
Xu Tong, a member of the Military Affairs Department of the Jiangnan West Road Fuxinghui Branch and captain of the Second Squadron of the Fifth Brigade of the Peasant Army, immediately understood the key points of this tactic after receiving Zhao Yucheng's instructions.
So he immediately summoned the officers and instructors of his squadron to discuss and arrange this tactic. All five hundred soldiers under his command would fight in this way.
Xu Tong chose a valley and used the Song Army's loud arrows to attract the Song Army into it, attracting two Song Army detachments.
The two Song Army detachments really rushed into the valley, and then found nothing inside and looked at each other.
By the time the officers of the two squads realized something was wrong, it was already too late.
The peasant army ambushing around the valley fired thousands of arrows. Under the rain of arrows, the Song army was caught off guard and many people were killed.
Then the peasant army rushed out one after another, surrounded and killed the Song Army's inferior force with a superior force of 500 people.
The remaining Song army showed a good desire to survive, and for a time they fought back and forth with the peasant army.
However, there were a large number of peasant soldiers, and the Song soldiers were immediately surprised to find that the peasant soldiers they imagined to be like beggars actually had a considerable armor rate, and they also held very sophisticated weapons.
Is this a rebellious ant thief?
Is this a regular army?
Compared with the peasant army, the Song Army's soldiers did not wear armor at a high rate. They would not have any advantage in a head-to-head fight. Even if their military skills were relatively high, they did not kill the peasant army with one slash, but they themselves were hacked to death by the peasant army. .
How to fight this?
The dozens of surrounded Song troops quickly lost their fighting spirit and were either killed or knelt down and surrendered, no longer resisting.
Xu Tong's troops won the first battle, killing forty-five Song soldiers and capturing fifty-five, including two officers. Xu Tong was overjoyed and immediately sent someone back to tell Zhao Yucheng the good news. He took two Song soldiers with him. The military officer began the interrogation.
These two people were also bachelors. They knew that they would not be able to survive if they did not cooperate honestly, but they knew everything. They seemed to have no intention of being loyal to Da Song and Shao Hongyuan.
"How many of you are here in total?"
"One hundred teams, a total of five thousand people."
"A team of fifty people?"
"Yes."
"They communicate with each other using sounding arrows, right? Once you hear the sounding arrow, you have to move as close as possible to the direction of the sounding arrow, right?"
"You know all this?"
The two Song Army officers looked at Xu Tong in surprise.
Xu Tong was holding a knife, and the old god was watching the two people.
"You guessed it, I almost suffered a loss before. Fortunately, I am smart, but you are not bad either. You can come up with this method, but it is a pity that we know about it. You are the first batch. Next, there will be many people and You keep me company.”
The two Song Army officers immediately understood what Xu Tong meant, and lowered their heads helplessly, admitting defeat.
"Please general, please don't kill us. We all have wives, children, and children. If we die, our wives, children, and children will be nowhere to be found. They will be very miserable..."
"Don't worry, it's not up to me to decide whether to kill you or not, and I have no interest in doing so."
Xu Tong shook his head, looking at them like this, he rolled his eyes and thought about it.
"Take off all your clothes."
"ah?"
"Take it off as long as you want, there's so much nonsense! If you don't take it off, be careful and I'll fix it for you!"
Xu Tong glared and showed off the dagger on his waist. The two Song Army officers trembled, nodded immediately, and began to follow the instructions.
After a while, the clothes of the fifty-five captured soldiers of the Song Army were taken off. Xu Tong himself selected fifty capable soldiers who were familiar with each other and put them on the military uniforms of the Song Army. He also made only them A mark that I only know.
"Tell me your names, the numbers of the queues you belong to, and any other important information, or I will fix you!"
Xu Tong showed his dagger again and threatened the two Song Army officers: "This is poisoned. As long as a drop of blood is stabbed, you will be dead, do you understand?"
The two officers were trembling all over, and their desire to survive soon took over everything they did.
