Monument Yangmen

Chapter 695 The Wisdom of the Ancients

Decades of waiting, just to say "I am a man of the Han family" to others, instantly brought tears to everyone's eyes.

Chen Yao, as well as the officials following behind Chen Yao, cried into a ball.

These officials originally thought that following Chen Yao to Shuozhou and Huanzhou was a kind of distribution.

Now, they don't have that kind of thought anymore.

They now feel more ashamed, and the glory after being ashamed.

The old man was crying and crying. Seeing that everyone was crying, he suddenly felt a little embarrassed. He raised his hand and wanted to help Chen Yao wipe away the tears from his face, but he was afraid that his hands would dirty Chen Yao's fair face.

He could only rub his hands dryly, and said awkwardly: "Why are you crying...don't cry, this is a happy event, a great happy event, we should be happy..."

Seeing that everyone was crying non-stop, he couldn't comfort them, so he could only rack his brains to find a way to ease the atmosphere.

At the end of the day, I only thought of one way, and that was to hand over everyone.

The old man walked out the door sideways, and said with some embarrassment: "Little old man, go and tell the folks the good news."

Follow the old man from door to door to knock on the door, to call someone, to explain.

In the end, those who were hiding in the house came out timidly.

The adults were sad and joyful, wept together and told their own stories.

The dolls don't understand why adults cry.

So they cry with the adults.

You have to ask why do the dolls cry?

The dolls naturally see others crying, and they cry too.

The sadness of more people naturally awakened Chen Yao and others who were immersed in grief.

They wiped away their tears and began to appease the people.

In the end, Chen Yao appointed the old man as the head of the village in the name of the prefects of Shuozhou and Huanzhou, and distributed a lot of food, agricultural tools, and seeds to the people.

In addition, Chen Yao also resettled some of the common people and entrusted the old man to take care of them.

The warm-hearted old man agreed, and invited Chen Yaoshi to come over to check his work.

In short, after crying, there is more joy.

And this scene is being staged one after another in various villages cleared by the rangers in Shuozhou, and it is gradually spreading to Shuozhou.

Whether it was the ranger army led by Shang Qingzi, the revival army led by Yang Da, or the iron cavalry army led by Yang Wu, they basically encountered no effective resistance on the way of marching.

When the news from various scouts and rangers gathered in Yang Da's hands, Yang Da also understood the enemy's intentions.

Yang Da on horseback held the news of the scout's report in his hand, and Yang Wu who rode side by side smiled bitterly and said: "Our opponents are very smart, they know that we have Rangers in our hands, and they are not afraid of their harassment tactics at all. , so they chose to shrink all their troops and defend the city. This is preparing us for one tough bone after another."

Yang Wu pursed his lips and said, "Anyway, the Iron Cavalry Army under my command is doing the business of confronting the enemy head-on. We are not good at siege warfare, and sending the Iron Cavalry Army to attack the city is an insult to the Iron Cavalry Army."

If Yang Wu's words were placed in other armies, it would be easy to be labeled as a fear of war.

But Yang Da knew that Yang Wu was telling the truth.

From its establishment, to its birth, and then to its experience, the cavalry army has been tempered.

Its purpose is to defeat the strong with the weak and defeat the enemy on the frontal battlefield.

It is not an insult, but a murder, to send an expensive cavalry army to attack the city.

Iron cavalry is not unable to attack the city.

It's just that their heavy equipment determines that their siege is a weak point.

In the siege battle, the soldiers of the cavalry army could not show their strength at all, and there was no way to defeat a hundred with one.

So asking the cavalry soldiers to attack the city is tantamount to throwing away the lives of men and horses carefully selected by Yang Qi, and maybe throwing away a set of expensive equipment.

Yang Da can quit the loss-making business.

In the siege battle, the cavalry army can't intervene, but it doesn't mean that the cavalry army can't assist in the siege.

Yang Da thought about it for a while, and he had a countermeasure in his mind, "The revival army is responsible for attacking the city, the iron cavalry army is responsible for intercepting the main roads, preventing the enemy's reinforcements from rushing to help, and the ranger army continues to sweep.

Since the enemy has given up the countryside, there is no need for us to keep it for them.

Since they like to drive nails, we will try every means to turn them into nails one by one and get rid of them. "

Yang Da attacked the city, Yang Wuwei ordered reinforcements, and Shang Qingzi cleared away the remnants.

This set of tactics is just right for the current situation.

Yang Wu had no reason to refuse.

Immediately, he nodded in agreement with Yang Da's strategic arrangement.

Yang Da quickly sent someone to convey his order to Shang Qingzi who was dozens of miles away.

In this way, under the mopping up of Shang Qingzi and the dredging of the road, Yang Da led the soldiers and horses and easily arrived in front of the first city in Shuozhou.

This is an old city, Yang Da can easily see the shadow of the city wall of the Han Dynasty from above, and judge the appearance of the buildings of the Tang Dynasty from the gates and buildings.

Looking at the old city, Yang Da and Yang Wu shook their heads together.

Why are you shaking your head?
Because the owner of this city is definitely an idiot.

Those who study history books will easily find in the history books that when the army is attacking, it is rare to bypass a city and attack the next city.

They fought like pulling out stakes, conquering them one by one.

The reason why they didn't bypass it was not because after bypassing it, they were later attacked by the city behind them.

It is because most of the ancient cities were basically built on the main roads, either built on the mountains, or built on the water, or built on the forest, or built on the only way of the flat road.

All in all, how to block the way how to build.

If in later generations, blocking the road, especially blocking the high-speed main road to build a city, people will definitely be sprayed to death.

But in ancient times, this is the crystallization of wisdom.

The reason why the ancients chose to build the city in this way is because it occupied the main traffic road, and the enemy army could not go around here to attack the easy-to-attack city.

If you can't pull out a wooden stake, don't try to pull out another one.

Of course, occupying an important traffic route can't stop people who can walk around the world with two legs.

So what is it to stop?

baggage!

No matter what period of war, as long as there are people participating in the war, supplies occupy a large position.

In ancient wars, supplies were even more important.

A city built on a major traffic road can easily block ox carts, horse carts, donkey carts, etc. that want to pass by.

Even if you try your best to get around it.

The soldiers and horses in the city can also sneak attack the escorting team with ease.

In the case of inconvenient transportation and inconvenient transportation.

How could the team escorting the luggage outrun the lightly armed enemy army?
And Yang Da and Yang Wu shook their heads in unison, because the lord of this city is an idiot.

The city was obviously built in the Han Dynasty and built in the Tang Dynasty.

The city that can be valued by the two dynasties naturally occupies a traffic artery.

The city is built on the hills, and there are low hills on both sides of the city.

The hills cannot stop the carriages and horses of the baggage.

But Yang Da and Yang Wu could easily judge that dense trees should be planted on the original hill.

No entry into the forest.

This is one of the key points of the art of war.

The purpose is to prevent the enemy from ambushing in the forest or attacking with fire.

And the owner of this city was obviously being smart. Not only did he cut down the trees on the hill, he even pulled out the stumps, and he also planted a thick green grass on the ground.

(End of this chapter)