Forced to suppress his nausea, Zhao Kuo knew: He couldn't mess up. If he messed up, Zhao Jun would be finished.
"There must be a way! Hold on, I can do it!" Zhao Kuo kept cheering himself up in his heart: "As long as we hold on for a few more days, General Lian Po will definitely arrive with reinforcements, for sure!"
Of course, if Zhao Kuo knew that Lian Po had arrived less than a hundred miles away from him to the south and would even go into battle tomorrow, there might be no need to be so anxious.
But it is a pity that the Wei army's scouts could not penetrate into the Zhao army, and even Lian Po did not dare to give such important information to the scouts to take away.
As a result, a misunderstanding caused by poor information was formed.
In Zhao Kuo's heart, he must find a way to let his army hold on for a few more days!
At present, the Qin Army's attack has not passed for two hours, and five fortresses have been breached one after another. If this speed continues, I am afraid that it will take less than three or two days for the Qin Army to completely complete the division and siege of itself.
Zhao Wei who was on the side obviously saw Zhao Kuo's worries, and immediately stepped forward to admonish him: "General, why don't you let me lead the army to attack the Qin army?"
Zhao Kuo shook his head without hesitation when he heard this. The only cards in hand that can be used are Zhao Wei and 20,000 elites, and the remaining 130,000 troops have been dispersed. The last 20,000 troops must not be moved again. They are the last trump card to cooperate with General Lian Po. They will not move lightly until reinforcements arrive.
Seeing that the general rejected his idea without hesitation, Zhao Wei was not angry and immediately stood aside, waiting for Zhao Kuo's call.
Zhao Kuo immediately fell into deep thought-first, he reviewed the current situation again.
The 20,000 reserve troops cannot be moved, which means that we have to find a way out of the 130,000 troops that have been dispersed.
But what else can be done?
The method of concentrating superior forces to annihilate one part of the enemy can no longer be used, because Bai Qi has already made adjustments to this. The cavalry crossing the gap between attacks is set up to prevent his own move. Once our troops gather, the attacker will As soon as it comes out, a nearby cavalry team will immediately rush to help. Although it may still not be a match for the superior force it has assembled, there is no problem in delaying it for a while.
The time this delay was enough was enough for the Qin army's follow-up troops and surrounding troops to surround us, which instead formed a superior force over our army.
This inadvertently reminded Zhao Kuo of the so-called "grid-based" tactics used by the Japanese invaders in North China, the leader of the army, Komura Neiji, that is, using elite and heavy troops to occupy important passes such as railways and highways, and taking the "clearing the countryside" campaign as the forerunner. , step by step, accurately identify the enemy's location, and then carry out "iron barrel encirclement" with elite and heavy troops.
Although the formation of the Qin army today is slightly different, it is roughly the same.
Yes, that’s it!
Zhao Kuo seemed to have caught something. Although the war of resistance behind enemy lines was so difficult, we could still win the final victory. Although we were short of troops and weak in combat power, the gap was still as big as those of our ancestors who fought with blunderbuss, crooked handles, and grenades against the enemy. Bar. What his forefathers could do, he could do too.
"Persistence is victory!"
"That's right." Zhao Kuo had already made up his mind: "General Lian Po must have sent for reinforcements by now. As long as he persists for a few more days, victory will definitely belong to him. And the best way to persist is to risk his life. , disrupt the progress of the Qin army, set up more obstacles, and delay the speed of the Qin army's advance."
"Send the order!" Zhao Kuo coughed lightly.
"The general is here." Zhao Wei immediately spoke out to take the order.
"In each fort, one-third of the combat strength was left, and the remaining ministries were disordered and organized. Infantry and crossbows were mixed together, in units of a hundred or two or three hundred people, each according to the mountainous terrain, which was advantageous. According to the terrain, build defenses on the spot to form nodes, and rely on the fortress as the fulcrum to fully delay the Qin army's attack." Zhao Kuo ordered in a cold voice.
"This?" Zhao Wei looked at Zhao Kuo with some embarrassment, disrupting the organization and defending on the spot. What kind of tactics is this?
Zhao Kuo ignored it and continued: "When the Qin army attacks a node or fulcrum, the nodes and the nodes and the fortress fulcrums should cooperate with each other, taking advantage of the local geographical advantages and the situation of our army.
Absolute control of the local geography trapped the Qin army, and then killed the Qin army. "
"General." Zhao Wei looked at Zhao Kuo who was flushed because he finally came up with a countermeasure, and decided to express his doubts: "If this is the case, wouldn't our army be even more dispersed? If the Qin army used heavy troops to pull out one by one If it goes out, our army will not be able to form effective coordination and reinforcements at all. How can we not let the Qin army defeat them one by one?"
"What I want is for the Qin army to be defeated one by one." Listening to Zhao Wei's words, Zhao Kuo's face became more and more rosy: "Think about it, our army of 130,000 troops, excluding the fortress army, will be the nodes on the front line. There are as many as two to three hundred, and the Qin army wants to remove them one by one, and it takes some effort. In this way, our army's purpose of delaying will be achieved."
"But?" Zhao Wei wanted to say something else, but was ruthlessly interrupted by Zhao Kuo.
"Tell the soldiers: Don't care about the gains and losses of the nodes. The purpose of the nodes is to attract the Qin army to attack. Make good use of their respective nodes to kill a large number of the Qin army and delay the Qin army's attack." Zhao Kuo said seriously and seriously: "Tell me Soldiers: Persistence is victory."
"Yes!" Zhao Wei immediately accepted the order.
Zhao Kuo naturally knew what Zhao Wei wanted to say, and Zhao Kuo himself knew nothing about the weaknesses of his tactics.
Because of the dispersion of troops, each node has insufficient troops. Once the Qin army gathers heavy troops to attack, the nodes will almost certainly be broken through. It is just a matter of time;
At this time, the Qin Army was obviously furious. Such actions undoubtedly made the Qin Army even more irritable. After becoming irritated, what the Qin Army did was unpredictable - the point that was breached was almost equal to the total annihilation of the entire army.
This also requires that all the soldiers under his command must be determined to die and fight the Qin army to the end.
Of course, there is the last and most fatal point. Due to the dispersion of troops and the disruption of organization, the generals' control over their soldiers will be reduced to a terrible level. Once the soldiers mutiny or escape, the generals will have almost no control over their soldiers. Any way.
Therefore, the key to this strategy lies in whether the Zhao army can still maintain its enthusiasm for the war of resistance without the constraints of military orders, and still fight the Qin army to the death without fear of sacrifice.
Historically, such tactics only existed in our party and our army, which had extremely strong grassroots organizations - the Korean battlefield, the 189th Division, and the Battle of Seed Mountain.
