What is the emphasis on marching and fighting?
Do it all at once, second time tired, third time exhausted.
The ancients made this very clear.
For any general, the most perfect combat state is when the autumn wind sweeps away the fallen leaves, and with one charge, the opponent's army is smashed to pieces.
Once this army formation is dispersed, it will no longer be possible to organize effective counterattacks. What will be left is a one-sided massacre!
But...it's easier said than done to defeat the enemy in one go?
Except for the level of generals on both sides, the military strength is very different, reaching the point where they are completely different.
But this situation is often rare.
More commonly, they are evenly matched battles.
Like three thousand against one thousand two, it is already an advantage.
Yan Hai still can't do it all at once to clear out Gu Beichuan and others.
How could Gu Beichuan and others defeat the iron wall formed by Yan Hai's 3,000 men with only their bravery?
However, after one vigorous effort, it failed again and again, and finally exhausted.
As time passed, the people around Gu Beichuan fell one after another, and the sergeants became more and more sober.
The fierce and fearless killing spirit gradually faded away.
When Yan Hai saw it, his eyes suddenly lit up, and he immediately knew that it was time to fight back!
With only 1,200 people supporting him until now, Gu Beichuan, a civil servant, is proud enough!
I saw him standing tall like a victorious general, waving his flag and giving orders: "Change the formation!"
"Transform the fish scale formation into a spear formation, rush into the enemy formation, and kill them all!"
Yan Hai saw the changing situation in his eyes, as if he had already seen Gu Beichuan and others fleeing under his command.
However, the next moment, he saw his body.
To be precise, it is my own headless body!
Then, consciousness suddenly stopped and disappeared.
Behind him, Li Dongbi stood tall, holding a flaming sword, with a sense of relief in his eyes.
If it hadn't been for the fact that at the last moment, the other party thought they had a chance to win and took the initiative to reveal the commander's identity, he really wouldn't have been able to find him.
Li Dongbi picked up the head that had fallen to the ground, raised it high, and then lost his temper in his Dantian, shouting loudly: "You, the general, have been crowned. If you don't surrender now, then when will you wait!"
At the same time, an army suddenly shot out of the dense forest, like an arrow, advancing bit by bit from the weakest point of Yan Hai's army, pointing straight to the heart!
Although this army is elite, its number is very small. Logically speaking, as long as the opponent continues to change its defense, it will probably not cause any trouble.
But at this moment, the general was killed by the opponent with a knife in front of him.
Coupled with the appearance of enemy reinforcements, although the number is a bit small, at this time, it is the last straw that breaks the camel's back. How can they not panic?
And when this person panics, he will do something substandard, especially in the army!
The originally neat military formation became chaotic, and the tightly knit defense became full of cracks.
Gu Beichuan took a look and knew that the time had come to decide the outcome!
Then he let out a long roar, and his true energy surged!
His body shape changed seven times in the air. Every time he changed, a sword light appeared across the sky and killed several people!
Seven times in a row, dozens of corpses fell behind him, and blood flowed like a river!
The several sergeants beside him were naturally greatly encouraged when they saw this scene!
For a time, morale was high!
The next battle is much simpler, and can be easily summarized in one sentence: The other side is exhausted and I am full, so overcome it!
Although the 1,200 people on Gu Beichuan's side did not make a strong effort, at least they were full of bloody courage. At this time, reinforcements arrived, so their morale was naturally high, and they chased the enemy and hacked at them.
On the other hand, the enemy thought that it was time to counterattack. Who would have thought that in a sudden change, not only could they not counterattack, but they were suppressed and beaten, and their morale plummeted. Not being defeated directly at this time is enough to show their high military quality. As for counterattack, nonexistent.
A few hours later, the sky was already dim and slightly bright.
There was a hint of fish belly white on the horizon, and the cold daylight in the morning shone on the corpses, which made people feel sick to their stomachs.
The entire land was red, and it would be no exaggeration to say that it was like a river of blood.
If this layer of redness is to disappear, it will take at least ten days and a half.
Gu Beichuan relied on 1,200 men, plus Li Dongbi's 200 men who emerged from halfway, and the 100 men hiding in the dense forest pretending to be enemy troops, and actually captured a thousand enemy troops!
This achievement, not to mention civilian officials, even senior military officers, is probably beyond the reach of them.
But...the remaining two thousand enemy troops were all killed in battle.
It wasn't that Gu Beichuan refused to surrender, but that the other party wanted to die!
Such an army and such military qualities made Gu Beichuan feel awe-inspiring.
Now he can basically confirm that this army was trained by King Yuan!
And for him to train such an army in private, his intention is to be punished!
It's a pity that I couldn't get enough evidence to identify him.
We can only hope that these captured soldiers can recruit some useful information.
After cleaning up the battlefield, it was almost noon.
Gu Beichuan led more than a thousand sergeants into Yashan County. On the one hand, he recuperated and treated the wounded. On the other hand, he also gave the soldiers who had been fighting for a long time a good meal.
After drinking and eating, before Gu Beichuan could make any next move, the magistrate of Yashan County came over and honestly told the whole story.
This group of people had robbed grain and iron ore, and hid part of it in the granary, while the other part was exactly as Gu Beichuan guessed, hiding it in the homes of local farmers.
As the saying goes, a cunning rabbit has three burrows. Even if one is discovered, he can still make some calculations in the other to avoid losing everything.
Later, the county magistrate also provided the specific family where the grain and iron tools were hidden, which undoubtedly saved Gu Beichuan and others a big problem.
But...he picked himself clean.
Anyway, according to him, he was coerced by the two brothers Yan Shan and Yan Hai from beginning to end.
In order to save the lives of the people in the county, he had no choice but to do this.
Otherwise, they will massacre the city!
Gu Beichuan sighed sadly when he heard this. He loudly rebuked Yan Shan and Yan Hai for not being a son of a man, while comforting the old county magistrate.
But in my heart, I didn't believe a word.
The other party was able to set up an ambush at the county government office and control the granary. Gu Beichuan would not believe it even if he was the county magistrate.
But what does this have to do with him?
The order he received was only to retrieve food and grass, and he ignored the rest.
This kind of mess should be reported truthfully to His Highness the Crown Prince and Prime Minister Wei.
When the time comes, the Yashan County Magistrate will naturally have someone to take care of him.
With the "active cooperation" of the Yashan County Magistrate, the search for food became much faster.
In just two days, all the lost food was recovered.
Gu Beichuan checked the numbers and felt they were correct, so he ordered a good rest and set off back to Qiandu tomorrow!
