Five Dynasties River Mountains Fengyue

Chapter 417 Offensive Principles

The water of the Hejiang River is meandering and generally runs from east to west, but there are many large and small river bends along the way. Compared with the Yangtze River and Huaihe River, the water surface of the Hejiang River is much narrower and the waves are calm. It is much easier to cross the river.

However, the river is still about a hundred steps wide, and crossing the river can only rely on boats.

On both sides of the He River, due to the moist soil and water, there are dense forests everywhere. Even in broad daylight, it is difficult to see the light. There is a huge difference from the north. Only a clean road near the ferry has been cut down for traffic.

In the era when felling depended on manpower and precious iron knives and axes, felling trees itself was also a very time-consuming and laborious task. In many places in the south where the natural environment is suitable for tree growth, human felling could not keep up with the growth of trees. So, this is itself a way of survival evolved by plants, but the evolution of humans far exceeds the speed of other species, which is beyond the expectation of trees.

Yewudu is located several miles west of the intersection of Mawei River and Hejiang River, because there is a village built on the south bank of Hejiang River, named Yewuzhai, which is a small village with more than [-] families. The people here have been operating the ferry for generations and carrying passengers and goods across the river for a living, so they are called Yewudu.

The water flow here is gentle, and the width of the river is only about sixty or seventy steps, which is suitable for crossing the river.

The people in Yewuzhai had already received the news, and most of them had already fled. The houses beside the He River were empty, except for some old, weak, sick and disabled.

No one is immune to war alone.

After the army of the Southern Han Dynasty arrived at the ferry, they immediately started building boats to prepare for crossing the river. In addition, they found more than a dozen boats hidden by the common people in the surrounding ferry and river beach forests. They quickly assembled the boats and began to cross the river.

Wu Yanrou did not disappoint the trust of the king, he immediately started to cross the river without the slightest delay or reservation.

Firstly, he is really very conscientious, and secondly, the soldiers all over the mountains, the riverside full of people, such a sea of ​​people, and the soldiers under his command like a cloud gave him a great sense of security.

As an eunuch with no experience in war, he just relied on his instincts to feel that surrounded by tens of thousands of people, all over the mountains and plains with no visible side, it must be very safe for him to dispatch the army. The gathering of so many people gave him a huge sense of security. and a sense of accomplishment.

Subsequently, the army began to cross the river, and dozens of small boats went back and forth to transport the troops to the opposite side.

Soon many soldiers reached the opposite bank safely one after another, and more and more soldiers gathered on the north bank to rest by the woods.

Until noon, when the sun was high, nearly one-third of the people had already crossed the river and gathered by the river.

Wu Yanrou was very satisfied. Seeing that there were more and more people in Jiangbei, he also felt that the situation was very good, so he began to cross the Hejiang River under the protection of everyone.
In the imperial garden, Zhao Shijian was leaning on Shi Congyun's shoulder, lazily reading to him some memorials sent from various places.

After having a child, Zhao Shijian, who was once slender and capable, has become plump and has the lazy temperament of a mature woman.

She was in charge of summarizing the contents and handling methods of the memorials sent by the prime ministers, and then told Shi Congyun about it.

There are two reasons for this. First, the emperor is too lazy. Second, the official documents of the prime ministers are really difficult to understand. Shi Congyun told them several times, write something that people can understand, don't search for chapters and excerpts, but the prime ministers don't understand at all. Understand.
Although Emperor Shi was lustful, he didn't always have women in his mind. Except for Zhao Shijian and Xiao Huanghua, he generally didn't let any women intervene in the affairs of memorials.

Xiao Huanghua couldn't read, so he only asked Zhao Shijian to do this kind of thing.

He trusts Zhao Shijian very much and has been growing up with him. Furthermore, Zhao Shijian does not have any huge forces behind him.

Behind the queen is the Fu family, and Hebei officials are obviously very biased towards the queen.Mrs. Huarui is the representative of Hanzhong officials in the Shu region, and Zhou Xian is the hope of most officials in Huainan, Jiangnan, Chu and other places, and there is also a huge network of connections behind her.

In such a situation, even if they are unintentional, they will be involved in it involuntarily.

"What book are you reading?" Zhao Shijian asked curiously after the memorabilia was almost finished.

Shi Congyun said: "Sun Tzu's Art of War."

Zhao Shijian was quite amazed, her pretty eyes shone brightly, then she giggled and said, "The officials really should read more books."

"Dare to laugh at me!" Shi Congyun feigned anger, and went to arrest her as he said that. Only a few people knew that he couldn't read too complicated official documents, and Zhao Shijian was one of them.

Many people think that they can easily understand ancient official documents if they have learned characters and learned a few classical Chinese texts. If they really read a lot of ancient official edicts, books and other documents, they will understand.

The classical Chinese in the textbooks are basically selected classics that are easy to understand, catchy, and have few rare words and rare words.

But most of the time this is not the case. Civil servants like to chew on words and show off their literary talents. They can use uncommon words but never use simple ones. a knowledge monopoly.

Without several years or decades of careful and systematic study, it is difficult to adapt. In other words, ancient prose itself is not for the dissemination of knowledge and information, but its greater role is to limit dissemination and realize knowledge monopoly.

It is completely opposite to the fundamental purpose of simplified Chinese, Mandarin, and vernacular that became popular later.

Shi Congyun reprimanded these civil servants several times for this, and they have changed, but the framework that has been used for thousands of years is there, and they can't change much.

After severely punishing Zhao Shijian who laughed at him in the garden, Emperor Shi picked up his "Sun Tzu's Art of War" again.

The redness on Zhao Shijian's face hadn't dissipated yet, he stroked the messy hair on his forehead, and patted him lightly, "Why do you think of reading military books? Didn't you say that military books are not worth reading?"

Emperor Shi was taken aback for a moment, and then remembered that he had indeed said such a thing, so he raised the book in his hand, "There are two kinds of military books, one is to teach people how to make military deployments, and the other is to talk about the philosophy of war." .

You don’t need to look at the military deployment, no one in the world is my opponent, but the book of war philosophy is worth reading.

"Sun Tzu's Art of War" talks about the philosophy of war. "

"Philosophy?" Zhao Shijian didn't understand.

"It's just a kind of thinking." Shi Congyun tried to explain: "In short, it is the overall policy."

As he spoke, he stretched out his hand, picked up Zhao Shijian and put it on his lap, because he was tall and the girl looked petite in front of him. He was used to this kind of action, and Zhao Shijian was also used to it. He didn't resist, but complained to him, "Hot Woolen cloth."

Emperor Shi explained to her: "It is very useful to understand other people's thoughts, and you can learn to absorb them.

After fighting for so many years, I also have my own views on war and my own philosophy of war. Maybe one day I can write a book on war. "

"What kind of philosophy?"

Shi Congyun thought for a while, "If you want to talk about war, first talk about attack.

If a man-to-man war is to be won, kill the other.

But if there is a war of 1 people against 1 people, the situation is much more complicated. There is no need to kill 1 people, as long as they cannot cooperate with each other.

This is a war mentality.

Generals rely on the formation and command system to command troops, and annihilation does not rely on dozens of times the strength of the opponent to surround the opponent and kill them all one by one.

Instead, it directly makes the army useless by destroying their organizational system and command system. "

"Wait." Zhao Shijian suddenly covered his mouth with his small hand, and let him say: "I'll go prepare the pen and ink, and write it down."

"Just call people, don't do it yourself, learn to order people." Shi Congyun taught her, Zhao Shijian was used to being ordered by him, and he always liked to do things by himself.

Looking at the back of the little lady, he thought it was cool. He might forget these things after he said them. If he could write them down, he might really be able to write his own military book in the future.

"...If you want to destroy the enemy's organizational system, there are many solutions at the operational level.

First of all, at the stage when the enemy starts to plan an attack, they can preemptively attack and strike first.

If it cannot be done, then before the enemy's troops are assembled, they will break through and disrupt their organization.

If you still can't do it, then launch an attack when the opponent has just assembled, or has not yet fully assembled.

If you still can't do it, you will enter the stage of the main decisive battle, and you can only fight the enemy in the field.

When none of these can be done, you can only attack the enemy's city, and siege warfare should be avoided as much as possible.

If the war develops to the stage where the main decisive battle is required, it means that all the previous operable means are gone, and the room for choice is also lost, and the matter becomes a simple killing contest and a comparison of forces.

Once a battle enters the main decisive battle stage, there will be huge risks and uncertainties, and direct main decisive battles should be avoided as much as possible.

Use various methods to weaken the enemy's ability to launch a decisive battle in advance. It is best to let them collapse if they are unable to launch a decisive battle, or even if they launch a decisive battle, their strength will be greatly weakened, so as to avoid risks as much as possible.

This is the principle of offensive warfare
Generals with little experience always like to have as many people as possible, and gather a large number of troops around them, which will give them a sense of security and the illusion that they are invincible. In fact, the more people there are, the greater the pressure on organization and logistics , the easier it is to fall into a predicament that is difficult to dispatch and command. There is an upper limit on the number of people, and the more the better.

The principle of concentrated use of troops is to concentrate superior forces and attack weak links, rather than to pile up soldiers around one by one to create a false sense of security."

Shi Congyun explained while Zhao Shijian carefully recorded that the imperial garden in the afternoon was very quiet, a rare tranquility.

The beach of Hejiang was crowded with people. After landing, Wu Yanrou asked someone to build a wooden high platform, put his chair, and sat on it overlooking the crowd of soldiers around him. He felt a kind of pride and pride in his heart.

He is conscientious. Since he received the order, he has been going north without any delay, and he has recruited soldiers from states and counties along the way. Now the exact number of people under his command is not clear, but at least more than 3 people.

Half of the troops had already crossed the He River. The afternoon sun was just right, and the dense forests along the river blocked the sunlight, making the soldiers who crossed the river very comfortable, and many of them rested on the spot.

The mighty army crossing the river, the dense crowd of people, and the dense colonies of soldiers on both sides of the north and south bank like an ant nest, all of these made him full of confidence. With so many people here, who can be his opponent.

For Wu Yanrou, who had never fought a war or been out of the Southern Han Dynasty, this was the biggest scene he had ever seen in his life.

However, he was a little dissatisfied with the lack of return from the northern striker who had just crossed the river. He felt that the procrastination and negligence of his soldiers might be the cause, and he was used to it.

As for defense, he has never thought about it. In his limited experience and imagination, fighting is to bring the army in front of the enemy. Everyone spreads out and has a killing contest, which is more powerful than who.

And here is still a hundred miles away from Hezhou, so it is still early before the war.

In the woods on the north bank, a large number of birds took off and circled in groups, but they flew for too long and did not land for a long time.

Sitting on the high platform, Wu Yanrou didn't notice that something was wrong, until out of the corner of his eye he saw dense black shadows rushing out of the woods in the northeast corner.

His eyelids twitched, but before he could react, a large number of soldiers resting by the river had been chopped down like melons and vegetables by the black shadows rushing out of the woods.

Soon not only in the northeast corner, more and more figures poured out from everywhere, and finally the soldiers on the edge reacted and started yelling, wailing and screaming together.

Faced with such an unexpected situation, Wu Yanrou was anxious, but her mind went blank, she didn't know what to do, and she was at a loss.

The black shadows in the woods rushed towards the river like a tide, and they moved quickly, chasing and killing them all the way. The Southern Han soldiers who were caught off guard would have no unified dispatch, no unified order, and no one told them in advance what to do if they encountered such a situation , Instinctively just run towards the river, towards places where there are many people, gathering and squeezing in the middle.

After a while, the earth shook, the sound of horseshoes rumbled, and the black torrent burst out from Zhengbei Avenue and rushed straight to the center. A large number of soldiers in panic were stabbed to death, knocked into the air or trampled to their bones and tendons, and soon A road was cut in the middle to separate the Southern Han soldiers by the river, and they headed straight for the high platform where the coach Wu Yanrou was.

On the south side of the river, there are still a large number of soldiers crossing the river. After seeing the situation in the north of the river, they were helpless. After a while, many large ships came from the river from the east and crashed into the small boats crossing the river. Many soldiers jumped The river escaped, accompanied by the ear-piercing sound of crackling planks, many boats were sunk and destroyed, and the troops crossing the river quickly disappeared.

Two quarters of an hour later, Jiangbei had been killed until blood flowed into rivers. The blood stained the sandy beach and flowed into the river. The chaos lost its organization. The inexperienced Southern Han army could not organize an effective resistance. The generals could not find soldiers, and the soldiers did not know their superior Where is it, I only know to run to the river.

The experienced cavalry of the Qin army interspersed everywhere, deliberately separating them, making it difficult for the soldiers of the Southern Han Dynasty to contact and organize resistance, so they found officers and generals with good armor to kill them.

But running to the river is also hopeless. Entering a river that is close to a hundred paces wide is bound to be a disaster, and there are still large enemy ships entrenched on the river, but many soldiers still jumped into the river driven by their survival instincts.

In less than half an hour, Jiangbei was in complete chaos. A large number of soldiers dropped their weapons and knelt down to surrender. Wu Yanrou, who was sitting on the high platform with disheveled hair, wanted to run away. The high official, eager to do meritorious service, cut off his left foot with a knife to prevent him from escaping, and finally stabbed him to death on the spot with a spear.

Soon, the troops who hadn't crossed the river in the south of the river saw the tragedy in the north of the river, and fled in all directions, fleeing south for their lives.
(End of this chapter)