Riding and cutting the imperial pirates of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 653 Balance Yoke
Even so, the current camping position of Huang Zhong's tribe is the standard "side water and side enemy". To the west of him is Linxiang City, to the south is the branch of the Xiangshui River, and there is less than [-] or [-] miles of room for movement in the middle. The reason why Wang Zheng ordered Wei Yan to help Xu Fang was because the terrain here was narrow and there were too many soldiers and horses to form a formation.

Although Wenpin was young, he had been fighting under Liu Biao for a long time, so he knew the terrain at a glance, so after hearing what the county lieutenant said, he immediately understood what the predicament the Yangzhou army was facing was, and even more so for the Yangzhou army. The reason why the troops are arranged like this is clear, and he can't help nodding his head slightly: "In this way, if the bandits attack the city, the main attack location they will choose is undoubtedly the south of Linxiang City."

"General, it should be so."

"The current situation is like this," Wenpin looked around, and said in a deep voice: "Linxiang is the capital of Changsha, Jingzhou, and it is also the throat of the south county in the north, so there is no room for loss. Defeating for a while led to low morale in the city, but there are still tens of thousands of defenders in the city, and there is no danger of falling in the short term, so we must go to the rescue as soon as possible!"

"Aiming at the next big battle, do you have a good plan? Please feel free to tell me."

At this time, Wang Can and Wenpin also went to look at the maps on the case. Wang Can was not only short in stature and ugly in appearance, but also had a problem. One of the reasons why Liu Biao, who was born in a famous family in Shanyang County, was not reused by fellow villager Liu Biao. At this time, he kept winking while looking at the map. After looking at it for a while, he suddenly said: "Zhongye, in my opinion, It seems that the formation of the enemy troops in Linxiang is not just as simple as facing each other across the water."

"Oh?" Wenpin asked in surprise, "What is Zhongxuan's (Wang Can's) opinion?"

"Look, Zhongye, the west of the city is Huang Zhong and Zhou Tai's tribes, the east of the city is Xu Fang's tribe, and the back of Huang Zhongbu is in the direction of Jianchang. The top is Luo County, and now there is an extra Wei Yan, who is going down the water. Go and meet Huang Zhong and Zhou Tai have joined forces, is this formation a balance yoke formation?"

"Balanced yoke array?" Wen Pin was startled when he heard the words, and then leaned forward to observe carefully. He is also a man who knows soldiers, and he saw the clues after a while: "Hey, it seems to be true, they have prepared a long-lasting siege. Are you ready?"

The balanced yoke formation, similar to the long snake formation, adopts the form of multiple columns lined up side by side. It requires generals to have superb tactical command ability, good at finding fighters and avoiding omissions in the rotation of the army. The combat power is long-lasting but not conducive to quick decisions.

Compared with the Long Snake Formation, the Balanced Yoke Formation has a much stronger ability to cooperate in combat, but it is slightly insufficient in mobility. In addition, once the number of people is too large, the difficulty of command will become greater. As it got bigger and bigger and more and more people participated in the battle, the Balanced Yoke Formation gradually declined and rarely appeared.

For example, the "Takeda Eight Formation" created by Takeda Shingen, a famous general of the Warring States Period in Japan, and the "Chexuan Formation" created by Uesugi Kenshin, are actually evolved from the balanced yoke formation.

"No." Wang Can said, "Just think about it, Zhongye. If we rushed to help Linxiang, where would you choose to start with the current few trilogy outside the city?"

"Huang Zhong and Zhou Tai joined forces, and Fang and Xu Fang's troops faced each other across the river, and they were in danger of being 'side water and side enemy'." Wen Pin pondered for a moment and said, "And Wei Yan's troops are facing Xu Fang. Going in that direction, it is obvious that their strength is weaker here, so take Zhou Tai first!"

"Yes." Wang Can nodded slightly, and said with a smile, "It's human nature to take the weak first, but please see Zhongye. Although the Zhou Tai tribe is weak, there is Jianchang in the east and Hunan in the west. They are less than a hundred miles away. There are also some defenders left here, if Zhou Tai's troops encounter the enemy, they don't even need the help of Huang Zhong's troops, just these two cities can immediately raise [-] reinforcements, and they will arrive at any time."

"And if we want to fight Zhou Tai, we must cross the river first. At that time, our army has already crossed the river, and Zhou Tai's army is squeezed into an area that is only tens of miles wide. Once Jianchang and the Yangzhou reinforcements in southern Hunan It suddenly went to the north bank of the Xiangshui River, and at that time, the situation was reversed."

Staring at Wenpin with furrowed brows, Wang Can paused slightly, squeezed his eyes a few times, and said word by word: "It's no longer Zhou Tai's troops, but our army rushing to help. Xiang's soldiers and horses are gone!"

The generals at the side looked at each other in horror, and some people couldn't help but said, "The implication of Mr. Wang Zhengling's words is that a few parts under Wang Zhengling's command set up a yoke formation outside Linxiang City. In fact, it was not for the purpose of attacking the city. And still want to repeat the old tricks, still besiege the city and fight for aid?"

"I guess so."

"Then how should our army respond?"

"En." Wang Can pondered for a moment and said, "There is only one plan for the current strategy."

"What count?"

"If you don't aid Linxiang, return to southern Hunan and Liling first!"

"Return to southern Hunan and Liling first?"

"That's right." Wang Can winked even more, "We must cut off the flanks of the enemy's besieged city first, so that our army does not have to worry about the future, and then rush to help Linxiang, take Zhou Tai, Huang Zhong, and finally fight with Xu. The Fang and Wei Yan tribes are fighting in the east of the city!"

In Hanshou City, when Wenpin and the generals were brainstorming to save Linxiang, Wang Zheng was also thinking about how to deal with the reinforcements that had arrived in Jingzhou.

When he heard that the leader of the reinforcements was Wenpin, Wang Zheng didn't dare to be careless, and immediately ordered the front line to pay attention.

Due to his young age and the fact that Jingzhou has had few foreign wars in the past ten years, the reputation of Wenpin at this time is more prominent in the state, and has not yet become famous all over the world. Few people outside Jingzhou know about it.

But Wang Zheng, a traveler, is not in this case. He still remembers a comment on Wenpin on the Internet in later generations, that is, there is no defeat!
The description in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms is more specific: He has been employed in Jiangxia for decades, he has great grace, his reputation shakes the enemy's country, and thieves dare not invade.

After Wenpin surrendered to Cao Cao with Liu Zong, Cao Cao obviously valued Wenpin's talent more than Cai Mao and Zhang Yun, who had higher official positions, and gave him a heavy responsibility, making Wenpin the prefect of Jiangxia.

And Wenpin did not live up to this trust. He guarded Jiangxia for Cao Cao for decades and resisted many invasions. In the Battle of Xunkou, Wenpin also took advantage of the victory to pursue, looting Guan Yu's food and grass in Hanjin, and by the way burned Guan Yu's warship in Jingcheng.

After Guan Yu's death, Jingzhou was occupied by Soochow. Jiang Xia immediately had to face the pressure of the enemy. However, compared with the difficult Guan Yu, Sun Quan was much easier to deal with, even when Sun Quan led hundreds of thousands of troops to besiege Jiang Xia. However, Wenpin was still able to rely on his own military ability to hold out for more than a month in the dangerous situation of few soldiers.

During the period, in the absence of soldiers, Wenpin also used the strategy of suspicious soldiers.He deliberately exposed his information to Sun Quan's espionage, deliberately slept during the day, and passed false information to Sun Quan.Sun Quan was suspicious, so naturally he didn't dare to act rashly. This move bought Wenpin a lot of time.

When Sun Quan decided to attack on a large scale, Cao Rui's reinforcements had arrived. Seeing this, Sun Quan didn't know that he had fallen for the trick, but he had no choice but to retreat.

As for the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, there are not many positive descriptions of Wei's generals except for a few main characters, except for Wenpin.

A few paragraphs of related plots, although it didn't clearly say how powerful Wenpin is, but every word talked about his awesomeness.

For example, in the battle of Changbanpo, Zhao Yun rode the savior alone, entered seven times and exited Changbanpo seven times, and even defeated dozens of Cao Cao's generals. Cao Cao was alarmed and praised Zhao Yun for being as brave as Lu Bu back then.

But Zhao Yun was promoted to this height, but immediately after "Wenpin led the army to come", he was "tired and exhausted", and hurriedly led the young master to flee on horseback, and hurriedly called for help when he saw Zhang Fei.

Another example is that after Liu Zong surrendered to Cao Cao, he also made a special note that Wen Pin originally wanted to defect to Liu Bei, but he couldn't find Liu Bei due to the chaos of the war. It can show that Wenpin in history was too powerful, but because he was a general of the Wei State, he did not conform to the theme of the novel to praise Liu and demote Cao, and he could not deliberately vilify him, so in the later period of the romance, Wenpin basically never appeared again.

Early the next morning, a military report arrived.

The sentry cavalry found out that some of Hanshou's military horses began to move towards Changsha County, and some military horses from Wuling, Nanjun and other places gradually began to gather in Hanshou area under the order of Wenpin.

In this way, the enemies in Changsha County roughly formed two fronts. The front line is Linxiang and Hanshou, which is mainly defensive; Nine times out of ten, employment will change from defense to offense.

Wang Zheng and the front line issued military orders, and the established deployment remained unchanged. In the short term, the main focus was to encircle Linxiang and lure the enemies in the Hanshou area to rush to help.In short, no matter whether the aid is successful or not, Linxiang City must be captured before all the soldiers and horses in Jingzhou are assembled!

Defeating Linxiang is equivalent to blocking the necks of the Jingzhou army in Nanjun, Wuling and other places. In the foreseeable fierce battles in the future, the heavenly army will be able to occupy a greater initiative.

In addition, while commanding the battle in Linxiang by remote control, Wang Zheng also communicated with Zhou Yu of Lujiang through letters to communicate about the battle against Huang Zu in Jiangxia. All the way.

On the one hand, there is an open attack, and on the other hand, there is a secret attack. The opponents of the open attack are Wenpin and Zhang Xian, while the target of the secret attack is Huang Zu, another general in Jingzhou. These two people, together with Huang Zhong, belonged to Jingzhou at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty. The three famous generals who belonged to each other, but this time they staged a fight between the same room because of the king!
When the troops on the Lujiang River were raising their horses, within two days, the battle situation in Linxiang changed again, but it was Huang Zhong who suddenly sent a military report.

Since Huang Zhong was on the front line, to a certain extent, he knew the enemy's dynamics better than Wang Zheng. Since Wenpin went to Hanshou, all the Changsha troops near Linxiang were mobilized, and they marched one after another. Along the line of Hanshou and Linxiang, Huang Zhong and Zhou Tai naturally had to discuss how to deal with it. Zhou Tai believed that at this time, it is necessary to continue to intimidate Linxiang, otherwise the defenders in the city will see the reinforcements continue to come. It will definitely boost morale.

This analysis is quite reasonable, the so-called ebb and flow, once the morale of the enemy is boosted, the morale of the army horses in Yangzhou may be low. At this time, giving the enemy a little intimidation can also be regarded as boosting the fighting spirit of the headquarters. Huang Zhong thought for a moment, I agreed.

Then Zhou Tai asked someone to write a letter. Hundreds of letters were written with the same content, and a rain of arrows shot into the city. For the top.

Zhang Xian got the letter, opened it and looked at it, saw that there were not a few lines written on it, and wrote roughly: "I am in a city of five miles from Hunan, and a country of ten miles, how can it reach my hundred thousand tigers?"Those who follow first will be rewarded, and those who are enemies will be punished.If you don't surrender, you will be slaughtered!
This bullshit, now everyone knows that the Wangzheng, which covers nine counties, is indeed powerful, and may really be able to summon a hundred thousand tigers, but how many are there under the city of Linxiang?
Besides, being able to mobilize [-] doesn't mean he can use them all to attack Linxiang!
Zhang Xian is almost certain that this is definitely Zhou Tai's intentional exaggeration in order to shake his army's morale, but he can understand that it does not mean that ordinary people will not believe it. Letters from the enemy must be handed in immediately, and must not be kept privately!"

"promise."

"How about the yellow turban bandits outside the city?" In order to inspire people and uphold righteousness, Wang Zheng's army and horses have returned to their familiar titles in Linxiang City.

"The bandit general Wei Yan's tribe has already arrived, and together with Xu Fang's tribe, they are stationed in the south of the city. There are about ten thousand people. In addition, the Huang Zhong and Zhou Tai tribes are stationed in the north of the city. There are about five or six thousand people, a total of less than 2 people."

"What's the news about Hanshou?"

"General Wen has issued a military order to the prefect to guard the city and not to leave the city easily." Fan Ling said, "Reinforcement troops from other counties are rushing to Hanshou and Linxiang day and night. At present, there are more than [-] reinforcements in total. If we add Jiangxia Huangzu's army can be mobilized at any time, and this time there are about [-] troops coming to help our city."

"Great!"

Zhang Xian jumped up against the case, looked around, and shouted excitedly: "With the addition of the Wang Zheng's army in Nanchang, the bandits now have a total of 4 or [-] troops, and General Wen can mobilize [-] reinforcements. With our soldiers and horses, plus the home battle, there is a great chance of winning even in the field, let alone a strong city to rely on?"

As he said that, he showed the letter in his hand to everyone, and sneered again and again: "The yellow scarf bandit's skills stop here. Seeing that I am guarding the city tightly, there is no opportunity to take advantage of it, so I can only intimidate with empty words and try to make money from the city!"

"What the prefect said is true!"

Everyone nodded in agreement, and someone said: "The only thing to worry about now is that it will take some time for the soldiers and horses from Nanjun, Wuling and other places to be mobilized, but no matter what, they will arrive earlier than the soldiers and horses from Xuzhou and Yangzhou." Xiang."

"The yellow turban bandits can't fail to see this. The longer the time drags on, the more unfavorable the situation will be for them, so the general thought that the bandits would launch a large-scale offensive in the near future!"

(End of this chapter)