Chapter 2093 Take Yuan Shao’s path

Chapter 2093 Take Yuan Shao’s path

Wen Rensheng carefully observed the enemy’s formation in front of him.

Obviously, the Wuhuan people on the front are relatively wealthy.

Some of them have three horses, and some of them have two horses, just beside them.

When attacking, people will be left behind to guard the horses.

In the past, when the Huns were in their heyday, each cavalryman was equipped with 4 horses.

When running for a long distance, four horses are driven at the same time, and only one of them is ridden.

One horse is tired and does not stop. The whole army is galloping, and the rider jumps directly from the back of one horse to another.

This can only be done by extremely skilled cavalry.

The current Wuhuan people are obviously not as wealthy as the Huns.

But they also brought 2 or 3 horses.

You must also have mastered the method of exchanging horses for riding while traveling, which can greatly increase your mobility.

Will not be caught up and killed by infantry.

At this time, on a small hillside in the distance.

Zhang Chun, Lord Wuhuan of Liaoxi County Qiu Liju, Lord Wuhuan of Liaodong Province Su Puyan, and Lord Wuyan of Wuhuan of Youbeiping County were looking at Wen Rensheng's formation from a distance.

"I don't believe their food can last for two months!"

"Yes, we have surrounded them. Unless they go down to the river, they can't escape even if they put on wings!" Su Puyan smiled.

This is the advantage of cavalry.

Although most of them are just herdsmen on horseback, they can still shoot arrows, throw javelins, and throw stones.

We can't expect them to fight the infantry with scimitars.

If they dare to give such an order, they will fight among themselves and even flee.

Let them play ranged and they can take some casualties.

But slashing at close range is absolutely impossible.

"We have to consume all their bows, arrows, javelins, and fuel. If we continue to struggle, they will starve to death!" Qiu Liju also laughed.

This is their common strategy.

They just entangled the infantrymen in the Central Plains with all their strength and trapped them to death.

Then they began to send troops to harass.

They gathered 7 teams of 1,000 men who had some fighting ability.

Those who dare to rush to fight within 50 meters of the opponent.

Soon they let the first thousand-man team try to attack Wen Rensheng's infantry formation from the left wing.

They wielded simple slings, as well as large clubs, all disposable.

Their fighting method is very simple, which is to use an arc-shaped attack route to approach the opponent, and then spin around.

Similar to the "wheel" formation.

This move is actually very powerful.

It is also difficult to become proficient.

It takes a prairie cavalry team that often hunts together to do it.

Ordinary herdsmen cannot do it.

They can only wait until the enemy collapses to take advantage.

Soon the thousand-man team began to accelerate slowly, and then approached the infantry formation.

A cavalry of thousands of people is quite terrifying.

The sound of the horses' hooves hitting the ground shook morale greatly.

During the filming of the movie, no phalanx of actors dared to face the charge of the cavalry head-on.

So much so that the director had to order the cavalry to deliberately circle around the formation.

If they were really charged head-on, the actors would run away knowing they were acting.

Don’t overestimate people’s fear of big horses.

Of course, horses are also afraid of sharp guns.

Unless it is a desperate situation, arraying without fighting is the iron rule for cavalry against infantry.

Only heavy cavalry, with men and horses equipped with armor, dare to charge into the formation.

But that is only at critical times and key positions, and will not be used as a routine method.

It is only used in decisive battles.

This is the fear of two things.

Horses are afraid of spear formations, and spearmen are also afraid of horse rushes.

Because everyone is destined to die together.

Although Wen Rensheng's infantry were frightened now, with the chariots surrounding them in front, it would be difficult for the horses to rush over. At most, there would be a collision-type car accident.

As long as the other party is not a fool, there will be no head-on confrontation.

Therefore, their morale is still very high, and they still carry out the officers' orders very steadily.

And now, the other party is obviously not a fool.

They drew a large arc, and then approached the infantry side and began to throw out projectile weapons.

Stones, sticks, javelins, bows and arrows, and even burning cow dung smoke...

Almost everything is useful.

Of course, when they approached, the tank side started ejection early when they entered the shooting range.

Arrows, crossbows, javelins, spears...

Relatively speaking, it is more systematic.

Shoot far too.

Soon hundreds of horses were shot and fell.

Dozens of the unfortunates were shot dead, dozens more wounded, and a dozen more jumped away from the fallen horses.

Some people were smarter and jumped directly onto their companions' horses.

Some people avoided the horse's hooves.

Those who are unlucky will be trampled to death.

But everyone knows each other, and they are good equestrians, so they try to avoid fallen horses.

It's similar to trying to avoid a rollover when driving.

After all, they are not modern cavalry. The distance between them is very wide, at least 5 to 6 meters, and their speed is not too fast. They can still be avoided within a range of 30 kilometers.

In short, in this round of ejection, the Wuhuan people were as unlucky as before.

So they immediately changed their tactics.

They no longer approached, but watched from a distance.

As long as Wen Rensheng doesn't move forward, they won't get close.

Everyone consumes each other.

Wen Rensheng was not in a hurry and asked the soldiers to camp on the spot.

Anyway, their herdsmen are grazing nearby.

Then the cheese kept coming.

There was definitely not enough grass to feed tens of thousands of people and horses. Soon, more than half of the 30,000 people were evacuated and went to other places to graze.

Only more than 10,000 horses and horses were left watching nearby, eating the food reserves.

Wen Rensheng sometimes sent out his own cavalry, more than 1,000 of them, to fight against opponents on a small scale.

Although he brought 8,000 cavalry, there were not that many horses. He only brought 12,000 horses, which was not enough for one person and two horses.

And all this time, the cavalry has only been trained for less than a year, and it is far from being considered proficient.

Riding requires long-term training.

So it is impossible to come up and fight the opponent.

He still has to rely on his mature and powerful infantry to defeat his opponents.

His infantry numbered 12,000 men.

Of course there are 6,000 heavy troops among them.

His team organization is different from ordinary feudal teams.

In an ordinary feudal team, 10,000 soldiers would require 15,000 civilians to carry the baggage.

And because he developed compressed dry food, chariot ordnance, he only needed 6,000 people.

Moreover, the baggage soldiers have also been trained and belong to the secondary team, so they can still fight.

This is of course based on high nutrition and high training.

Soon after the small-scale battle, the Wuhuan people could no longer bear it.

A dozen of them died every day, and occasionally dozens of people died.

Many people were injured.

This is terrible.

Because they have to wait and see if they are injured. They have no medicinal materials to treat them, and they don’t know how to use strong alcohol to disinfect them.

Half a month later.

“This can’t go on like this!” Qiu Liju wanted to withdraw his troops.

"If they persist for another month, they will not have many arrows left." Zhang Chun insisted.

“It’s not your clan that died, so of course you don’t feel bad!” Qiu Liju cursed.

Both sides were originally robbery gangs, how could they endure high casualties?

"You want to run because you want to taste whether my sword is sharp?" Zhang Chun pulled out his sword and said angrily.

Now that he claims to be the emperor, he has expanded. "My sword is not bad at all!" Qiu Liju also drew his sword!

A bunch of people immediately tried to persuade him.

“Forget it, don’t do it.”

"The enemy is currently facing us, so don't fight internally."

"Let's think about how to retreat from the enemy?"

"How to retreat from the enemy? Let's retreat directly to the depths of the grassland. I will I don’t believe they can keep chasing us,” Qiu Liju said angrily.

"There are others deep in the grassland, including the Xianbei and the Xiongnu. They are not easy to mess with. If you go to their territory, more people will die." Su Buyan shook his head.

"Are we going to continue to fight hard? I see that their cavalry has been dispatched, and the scale has become larger and larger recently. Last time, 3,000 cavalry were dispatched, and we almost lost hundreds of people. !" Qiu Liju said heartbrokenly.

"Damn it, what should we do?" Su Puyan said angrily.

At this time, they were like facing a hedgehog, which was difficult to swallow.

I don’t want to run away directly.

In that case, they will feel that they have lost too much.

This is not possible.

The loss is huge, but that’s not okay.

The tribe will be doomed.

At this moment, Wen Rensheng no longer gave them a chance.

The chariot started and headed straight for Liucheng.

If they don't want a decisive battle, they have to give up their base.

Without their base, they are weak.

With Liucheng, Wen Rensheng will let them know what it means to kill the grassland tribes by economic means.

Soon Zhang Chun decided to take the plunge.

He led the charge.

Then he escaped...

A bunch of sharp arrows were originally going to shoot him into a hedgehog, but he made a sharp turn before the formation, dodged it, and then ran away with his cronies.

Other Wuhuan people also dispersed in a hurry.

Wen Rensheng arrived at Liucheng smoothly.

Then came the siege and attack.

Liucheng is actually very short, the city wall is only about four meters high, and some places are only over two meters high.

After all, the Wuhuan people are nomadic, not settled.

Ten days later, someone came to report that Zhang Chun’s cronies took his head and came to collect the reward.

This is what happens when the leader collapses.

When your subordinates lose hope, they will kill you.

Wen Rensheng ordered to give the reward to the crony.

The reward is 500 acres of land, plus 500,000 yuan.

Not too much, but not too little.

The key is to enjoy it with peace of mind.

Then came the broken city.

The Wuhuan people were not good at defending the city at all.

After killing and wounding some people, they dispersed.

At this time, they had not yet formed the powerful Wuhuan people that Cao Cao would face more than ten years later.

In ten years, for a force, the gap is huge.

Now they are still in the battle cohesion period.

After several rebellions and tempering their combat effectiveness, a group of Wuhuan people were trained who dared to fight.

But now, Wen Rensheng directly interrupted their upward momentum.

"On the grassland, you can raise sheep and engage in wool spinning industry."

Wen Rensheng then started to build a wool spinning factory nearby.

It is cold in the north, especially in winter, and you need to keep warm.

Many people are short of clothes.

Food, clothing, housing, transportation, and clothing come first.

Because it is easy to freeze to death in the wild in winter.

With good clothes, you can go out to work and make money in winter.

That’s an extra 3 to 4 months of working time a year.

You can also farm in winter, such as greenhouse farming.

Even if there is no greenhouse, with sweaters, we can expand to Liaodong and plant one season a year.

Relying on wool spinning, Wen Rensheng successfully integrated the Wuhuan tribe into the Taihang Economic Zone economically.

The tribesmen relied on wool in exchange for food, wine, salt, ironware...

And thus suffered economic control.

It is impossible to escape from the control of force if you are economically controlled.

Wen Rensheng began to fix the territory and the alliance flag system.

Grassland tribes are prohibited from nomadic herding at will. They must graze, raise sheep, and plant grass in fixed places to prevent grassland degradation. At the same time, they teach and study the Four Books and Five Classics. They must first learn the human ethics of parents and children well...

As for the population becoming too large, what should we do if the pastures cannot be afforded?

Pulled out of the sea to become sailors overseas...

In short, with this combination of fists, Wuhuan people will become ordinary woolen mill workers...

It is no longer a political, economic and military organization.

…………

This day.

Xiao Huan found Wen Rensheng.

"Lao Wen, I think you can push it evenly. Look at how I am like this when I play games. I always plan carefully from the beginning and choose measures carefully. After playing a few cities, I can The troops were pushed without restraint. ”

"Push? That's right. Let's get started." Wen Rensheng looked at his economy and soldiers.

The economy has developed, and there are 50,000 elite soldiers.

After the cavalry incorporated the Wuhuan people, they already had 20,000 fine cavalry and 40,000 horses.

And it is constantly replenished.

Then the flag began to be raised.

"The king of the world will be chosen by the people of the world."

"The sky is dead, Taixing should be established!"

"If you are in **, the world will be prosperous."

Anyway, everything will be good. It's pretty much the same thing.

The first wave was to occupy Youzhou and Jizhou.

It was almost occupied.

Now it is just a matter of fact.

In fact, many powerful people have known for a long time that the Taihang Mountain people were rebelling, but they didn't do it openly before.

Now before, Zhang Chun claimed to be the emperor and rebelled, and now there are people from Taihang Mountain rebelling.

That’s pretty much it.

Gongsun Zan sent troops to attack.

We were defeated in one battle.

Gongsun Zan was beaten so hard that he fled in embarrassment.

He has trouble fighting Wuhuan people, but he still wants to fight Wen Rensheng?

Absolutely ridiculous.

Soon the entire Youzhou and Jizhou were captured.

Then the measures taken by Wen Rensheng in the Taihang Mountains were uniformly implemented.

I didn’t go south.

But it has grown steadily for another year.

Stabilize the population, create jobs, and distribute food so that the refugees have food, cloth to wear, and houses to live in.

50,000 soldiers and horses, expanded to a standing army of 100,000.

Then he fought with Huangfu Song from the Northern Expedition.

Huangfu Song’s Han army was not defeated.

But there were a few minor losses.

Win is hard to come by.

He wanted to go deep into Jizhou to kill, but was trapped by the cavalry entanglement and attack, and had no chance to go deep into the hinterland.

This is the advantage of cavalry, which can be used for strategic defense to prevent the enemy from advancing straight in. Having cavalry can give you a strategic advantage.

The opponent has no choice if they want to go deeper. If they are not careful, they will cut off their return route and be surrounded on all sides.

However, the emperor was repeatedly stimulated and died.

Huangfu Song was recalled to Luoyang by the general.

Huangfu Song had no choice but to fight and retreat. He lost half of his 30,000 troops, and then retreated to the south bank of the Yellow River.

Wen Rensheng went to occupy Bingzhou and Qingzhou.

In short, they copied Yuan Shao's Hebei strategy.

(End of this chapter)