please make me king

Chapter 1207 Great Depth Offensive Tactics

Han Yu, the former Chief Assistant of the Great Ming Cabinet, is now nearly [-] years old, with white beard and hair, wearing a dust-covering warm hat, a wide shirt with straight seams, a soap silk sash around the waist, and cooked leather boots. He looks like a rich man. appearance.

He looked at the flags lined up outside the city and the dark crowd, expressionless.

"Master Han, can this be resisted?" General Zheng Jiadong couldn't help asking when he saw that there were many "thieves" outside the city.

"If you can't stop it, you have to stop it! Since ancient times, Han thieves are not independent, and the king's industry is not partial to peace. I am a majestic court ordering officials, how can I bring down thieves?" Han Yu couldn't help scolding when he heard the words.

Seventy years of life are rare!

Although the old man has reached the age of seventy, he is still in good spirits and his eyes are like lightning.

Under his gaze, Zheng Jiadong felt that his little thoughts were exposed to the sun, and there was nothing to hide.

"Your Excellency, you are joking. If an adult is in charge here, who would dare to refuse to follow suit?" Zheng Jiadong said with a bit of fear.

"Nowadays the 'thief power' is very strong, and the soldiers and young men are afraid. I don't know what strategy your lord has, so that the brothers can have some confidence in their hearts."

"Without him, I have to keep my ears to the ground!" He Fu, the magistrate of Puzhou, answered straight away.

"Previously, I served in Song County as a subordinate official. I once confronted the 'Thief Chieftain'. He is cunning and likes deceitful cities the most. I ask Han Xiang to be careful!"

Previously, he and Liu Jiangyue repelled the "Crossing General" Li Zicheng and others many times, and thought they knew the soldiers.

As a result, Zhang Shun cheated to open the city gate, which made He Fu still have lingering fears.

"It's okay." Han Yu shook his head when he heard the words, "If that's the case, then how about the eunuch He lead more than a hundred people to be responsible for patrolling the city's traitors, I don't know what to do?"

"The next official takes orders!" He Fu heard the words and quickly responded respectfully.

Only then did Han Yu laugh and said: "Puzhou City needs to be repaired by the prefect. It is as solid as gold. As long as we work together, even if the 'thief' has an army of millions, what can we do!"

Not to mention how conceited Han Yu was, but he didn't know that Puzhou City, which he thought was strong, was just a big stumbling block on the way forward for the rebel army.

It is said that since Sun Shoufa took Pubanjin, Zhaowu general Cao Wenzhao took Cao Dingjiao, "Huaguansuo" Wang Guangen and others quickly crossed the Yellow River.

However, after Cao Wenzhao, Cao Dingjiao and Wang Guangen crossed the river, they did not love to fight. Instead, they went up the Sushui River, took the Linjin and Yi clans, and went straight to Wenxi.

At the same time, the left wing, under the leadership of Zhang Fengyi, the commander-in-chief of the right, crossed Yumendu, captured Hequ and Jishan, and went straight to Jiangzhou.

Under the leadership of Zuo Shuai Yu Chongxiao, the right wing crossed Fenglingdu, captured Ruicheng and Pinglu, and then crossed Zhongtiao Mountain and went straight to Xiezhou.

Ma Jinzhong, who was stationed in Yuanqu County, also marched westward at the right time, capturing Xia County and Jiang County respectively.

After entering Zezhou, Li Xin, the left commander of the Southern Route Army, was blocked by Luzhou, turned westward, divided his troops to capture Yangcheng and Qinshui counties, and hurriedly drove Yueyang.

In just a few days, the Ming army was invincible wherever the rebels fought.

For a time, [-]% of the cities in the Linfen Basin, the most affluent city in Hedong, fell into the hands of the rebels.

This is Zhang Shun's "Shanxi strategy" formulated based on the "Great Depth Combat Theory" of his previous life.

The "Great Depth Combat Theory" is a combat theory proposed by Zhang Shun's former Soviet Marshal M.N. Tukhachevsky and formed through the bloody practice of the Soviet Army in World War II.

He was quite similar to the "Blitzkrieg" that invaded Germany at that time, but was very different.

At the beginning of the establishment of the "Great Depth Combat Theory", it was intended to eliminate the enemy through a series of consecutive battles. Its essence was to start thinking about preparing for the next battle while implementing the previous battle.

It is a battle in which a series of battles are combined to form a "combined boxing" situation.

In order to achieve this goal, he formed a "big depth" system with three dimensions of "wide front, large depth, and high speed" in terms of depth, breadth, and speed, so it is called "big depth combat theory."

From the perspective of offense and defense, it includes two aspects: "offensive in depth" and "defense in depth".

In terms of implementation, it includes "Breakthrough Group" and "Mobile Group".

Due to the technological limitations of this era, it is impossible for the Rebel Army to achieve the battlefield width of [-] to [-] kilometers and the depth of [-] kilometers as in the previous Soviet Union.

However, Zhang Shun could not hold back and used the infantry, cavalry, and artillery groups of this era to form his own "big and deep combat plan."

Specific to this battle plan, Zhang Shun divided his army into five aspects: "Breakthrough Group", "Mobile Group", "Eradication Group", "Support Group" and "Governance Group".

Among them, the striker Cao Wenzhao, the left-wing Zhang Fengyi and the right-wing Yu Chongxiao are the strategic "breakthrough group" of the rebel army, while the main forces led by Zhang Shun are the "mobile group" and the "removal group", and the South Route Army Li Xin's department is the strategic "support" of the rebel army. group".

As for the "governance group", Zhang Shun planned to take over the occupied areas and form a preliminary governance structure with Sun Chuanting as the head and officials who were demoted from Shanxi as supplementary.

The most critical of these are the "Breakthrough Group", "Mobile Group" and "Elimination Group".

In addition to the overall division of the rebel army, the "Breakthrough Group" itself is also divided into three parts: breakthrough, maneuver, and removal.

Taking the forward Cao Wenzhao's department as an example, the Sun Shoufa Battalion, which was responsible for the surprise attack on Pubanjin, was responsible for the breakthrough mission, while the Cao Wenzhao, Cao Dingjiao, and Wang Guangen's departments were responsible for the follow-up mobile mission.

The striker Cao Wenzhao's department is responsible for the eradication task is the mobile artillery with the rebel army's "golden artillery" and "field artillery" as the main body.

Therefore, the offensive rhythm of the rebel army is a breakthrough, and then the mobile forces swarm up. If they encounter a difficult enemy army, this will be reserved for the field artillery forces with slower mobility.

If the follow-up mobile artillery cannot overcome it, it will be handed over to the "mobile group" and "removal group" led by Zhang Shun.

If Zhang Shun's forces still cannot remove the enemy's stronghold in a short time, they can even take advantage of the large number of rebel soldiers to encircle without fighting, and wait until the battle situation is settled before making any calculations.

Today's Puzhou City is exactly the "nail house" that the rebels had envisioned, and they cannot be pulled out for a while, so Sun Shoufa's troops are besieged, and they will wait for Zhang Shun's main force to arrive before making any calculations.

Of course, Zhang Shun would not let them wait too long.

At the same time that Sun Shoufa's Ministry conquered Pubanjin, Zhang Shun also boarded the boat early, sailed down the river from Xi'an City, and entered the Yellow River through Sanhekou.

At this very moment, Zhang Shun was standing at the bow of the ship and flaunted to Song Xiance and Sun Chuanting beside him: "The deep combat is completely different from the blitzkrieg."

"The latter's soldiers are elite and sharp, and they hide and don't show up. They wait for the opportunity to rise up, and they are like lightning, so they are called 'blitzkrieg'."

"As the saying goes: At the end of a strong crossbow, one cannot penetrate Lu Jin. Wait until the veterans of the division are exhausted, and sooner or later they will be captured by the enemy. This is the strategy of this small country!"

"And I'm so deep, hundreds of miles in length and breadth, if the enemy can't defend, I will tear through the defense line and go straight into the enemy's territory for hundreds of miles. Who can defend?"

It was nothing to Song Xiance that Zhang Shun talked eloquently, but Sun Chuanting was trembling and terrified when he heard it.

As the former governor of Shanxi, he had already formulated a detailed plan to defend against the rebels.

However, after hearing Zhang Shun's battle plan now, he realized that the solid defense line he had imagined at the beginning was like paper.

In this era, the thinking of many generals is still stuck in point-to-point combat. If you go further, learn to outflank and attack and defend on the front line, which is already the capital of a famous general.

If we go a step further and consider the front line, second line and rear, it is often the result of one or two generations of groping with blood and tears.

However, none of these have any effect in front of Zhang Shun today.

As long as the front line is wide enough, he can use this theory to make multiple breakthroughs, and then tear the front line apart, leaving you completely unable to deploy the next line of defense.

In an instant, Sun Chuanting suddenly realized how scary Zhang Shun was.

He always thought that the purpose of dividing the rebel army into three groups was to relieve Zhang Shun's command pressure.

After all, since ancient times, it has been quite rare for a man who can command one hundred thousand soldiers and horses to fight. Unexpectedly, "King Shun" jumped up from commanding tens of thousands of soldiers and horses, and began to command two hundred thousand troops to fight.

That's right, only then did Sun Chuanting realize that the Hong Chengchou Division of the South Route Army was also under Zhang Shun's command.

This battle has been "great depth" from the beginning. The first battle started in Kaifeng Mansion, the second battle started in Huaiqing Mansion, and the third battle started in Hedong.

The three battles were interlocking and interlocking, in order to take advantage of the number of rebels and launch interconnected battles from a broad front of hundreds of miles.

The Battle of Kaifeng was to mobilize the Ming army and create conditions for the Battle of Huaiqing Mansion;
The Battle of Huaiqing Mansion was also to mobilize the Ming army and create conditions for the Battle of Hedong.

In addition to creating conditions for other battles, these three battles are also of great significance in themselves.

In a word, from Kaifeng Mansion to Huaiqing Mansion, and then to Fenglingdu, Pubanjin and Yumendu, on the battlefield of more than a thousand miles, in the eyes of many people, it is three wars respectively, but in fact it is still one battle. war.

And this is just the beginning of a war. Sun Chuanting dare not or cannot think about how much the battlefield will be widened and how deep it will be assaulted.

This person descended from the sky, perhaps it is time for this great Ming to die!

(End of this chapter)