What was embarrassing was that the more than 8,000 elite soldiers he led were actually attacked by Zhao Jun, and nearly half of them were lost. There were only about 5,000 soldiers left in the camp. This was undoubtedly a huge defeat.
Fortunately, Zhao Jun's move of dividing his troops allowed him to successfully defend the camp and avoid the consequences of the entire army being annihilated. It was a blessing to be able to save the main army under the surprise attack of tens of thousands of Zhao army elites.
As for the slightest bit of weirdness, General Qin's army thought about the entire battle, but he couldn't find the origin of the slightest bit of weirdness.
As the hot sun gradually shifted to the west, both Qin and Zhao gradually ceased their activities. The Qin army occupied the camp, and the Zhao army now had more than 10,000 troops. It was difficult to break it. However, the Zhao army did not seem to be prepared to fight to the death with the Qin army, and quietly faced off against the Qin army.
That's right, confronting.
This made the Qin army's general nervous. What are you going to do if you don't attack or retreat? Is there any conspiracy? Or maybe it’s because the weather is too hot and you’re planning to burn the midnight oil to fight?
Immediately, the Qin Army camp continued to be busy. Horses, rolling logs, stones and other objects were moved out from the rear camp. Three steps, one post, five steps and one sentry were placed on the wall of the camp, lest they be attacked by Zhao Jun again. Exploited a loophole.
However, at this time, the elite Zhao army had actually quietly withdrawn from the battlefield.
Except for another day's supply of food and five hundred soldiers, there was an empty camp standing on one side of the fortress, silently deterring the Qin army.
That's right, Zhao Jun withdrew! The retreat was decisive, quick, and secretive!
This of course has something to do with the fact that the Qin army was afraid of being attacked and did not dare to investigate. And the reason why Zhao Jun retreated so decisively and quickly is because there is only one reason - they still have a mission!
"Run hundreds of miles to build fortifications and block enemy reinforcements."
This is the task that Pi Jiang snatched from Zhao Wei last night.
Before midnight tonight, he and his ten thousand elite troops must appear at a pass called Qifeng Mountain in the north to block the Qin army's way north and south.
Not a single soldier was allowed to enter the battlefield until the 30,000 main force under General Zhao Wei completed the encirclement and annihilation of the Qin army heading south.
Yes. Zhao Kuo's real move was not to catch the Qin army by surprise. Doing so would only cost the Qin army thousands of combat forces. For the Qin army with hundreds of thousands of troops, it was not even a decent cold.
What Zhao Kuo wanted was a real injury to the Qin army, the kind of damage that would take several days to reassess and re-evaluate the battle situation. Because such an opportunity, with Bai Qi's ability, is impossible to give himself a second time.
The enemy is strong and we are weak, but we still want to greatly weaken the enemy's combat power. The Battle of Huaihai flashed in Zhao Kuo's mind like a bolt of lightning.
In the Huaihai battlefield that year, the enemy was strong and we were weak.
In terms of military strength, the two field armies of Huaye and Zhongye plus the attached Shandong and other military regions, the total number of the People's Liberation Army is only 600,000, while the national army includes the reorganized 74th Division, the 10th Army, the 18th Army, etc. during the Anti-Japanese War The ace unit that has made great achievements in Zhongzhong consists of seven corps, totaling 800,000 people.
From the perspective of weapons and equipment, Mr. Su's Huaye is considered wealthy, but it only has a few more machine guns and a few artillery pieces of relatively small caliber than its brother troops. As for the other main force, the Central Plains Field Army, Because of the thousands of miles of advance into the Dabie Mountains, the equipment that was originally pretty good (the midfielder was the fattest before the advance, bar none) was forced to be discarded, and the number of personnel was reduced by more than half. The midfielder in front of him was almost the same as a beggar, and many soldiers even had less than five bullets in their hands.
On the other hand, the national army has air force cover above, roaring artillery below, and tanks in the middle to clear the way. Several main forces are fully equipped with beautiful weapons and equipment. Just reorganizing one division of artillery from the 74th Division is almost as big as an entire field army in Huaye. The number of artillery pieces is comparable.
No matter how you look at it, it is a battle with extremely asymmetrical strength. Even the committee members put down their bold words and said: "The advantage is mine!"
But in such a situation where "the enemy had the advantage", Mr. Su forcibly ate up the 800,000 national troops bit by bit, eating them cleanly.
Of course, this has to mention the support of the people of the five provinces in the Huaihai region.
However, from a tactical perspective alone, each of Su's battles can be called an art. But if we summarize it a little bit, we can find the general pattern - concentrate the absolute superior force in a local area, and defeat the enemy's entire army. Form an encirclement and annihilation.
In this strategy, one is to move secretly and quickly, and be able to appear in places where the enemy does not expect it at any time. What is even more difficult is mobilizing the enemy - only by letting the enemy troops, which are like a monolithic piece, break away from the front and back to form a protrusion can our army have an opportunity to take advantage of it.
If you want to mobilize the enemy, "surrounding the point to call for reinforcements" is obviously a tried and tested routine.
As a great young man from the 21st century, Zhao Kuo learned from the heroic predecessors and applied it to others, and Mr. Su would not mind it. Well, it seems that the current Zhao Kuo should be the ancestor of future generations...
These are not important.
The important thing is the execution of the routine of "surrounding the point and calling for reinforcements".
The first step is to choose a point for siege. It must be a point that the Qin army must rescue.
What must be saved is that once this point is lost, the main force of the Zhao army will most likely flee.
In this way, the points to the west and south are excluded, because both Guanglang City further to the west and Jiepai Ridge further to the south are enough to continue to block Zhao Jun's way.
All that is left is the east and north sides.
Needless to say about the north, once you break through, you can get into the forest and return to Changping Pass. But the problem is that the entire north is the side with the strongest troops and the most powerful combat power of the Qin army. Want to break out from it? As long as your mind is not caught by the door, you will obviously not think like this.
In the end, only the east side is left. Although there are two barriers on the east side and are blocked by Danshui, after repeated battles, the west bank barrier has been damaged. Although the east bank barrier has been sorted out, no one can guarantee that Zhao Does Jun still have any backup plans? The water level of the elixir can be passed by rolling up his trousers.
Of course, the most important thing is that the Qin army in the east is the weakest. After Wang Qishuo led an army of 50,000 to the north, the Qin army in the east has less than 30,000 troops. Although the King of Qin later sent reinforcements to the east after they arrived, Ten thousand troops, but there is no doubt that the defense to the east is still very weak.
Therefore, the "point" of this "encirclement point" naturally falls on the east side - the fortress closest to the barrier.
Once you have chosen a point, you have to consider the siege.
Because time is urgent, a slow siege is obviously not feasible, so the only option is to "fight instead of siege."
Hit, hit hard, it must hurt the other party, so that the other party will ask for help without hesitation.
