Xuande

Chapter 728 Fire rains from the sky, have you seen it?
Fei Zhan didn't know Bingzhou's mountains and topography very well, so he felt somewhat apprehensive when he heard Xu He praise Guan Yu like this.

However, many years of successful experience of the King of the Mountain and the Emperor of the Earth made him think that even if Guan Yu could fight him, he would not be able to eliminate him. He did not think that Guan Yu had much ability to uproot their business for so many years.

Having been operating in Danyang County for so many years, Fei Zhan can pat his chest and say that no one knows Danyang better than him.

He knows the mountain roads here, the resources here, the water here, and everything here.

But Guan Yu didn't understand.

"Bingzhou is Bingzhou, Yangzhou is Yangzhou, this is Danyang, our ancestral land, how can he, Guan Yu, face the situation where every mountain must be guarded and every mountain road must be ambushed, so what can he do?

Yes, they have many soldiers and can fight, but the mountain road is rough, no matter how many soldiers they have, the road is so wide, if the army can’t get through, they can’t get through. We are different. "

What Fei Zhan said, Xu He did not disagree, because Danyang County's geographical advantage is indeed great, and many previous encirclement campaigns by the government and army failed because of this reason.

It is precisely because of this reason that Xu He, Sima Ju and others decided to stay here instead of continuing to flee south.

They also didn't think Guan Yu could win a complete victory. In the worst case, the two sides would be at a stalemate in the Danyang mountainous area, enter a confrontational state, and start fighting for consumption.

It is difficult to supplement the consumption of the Han army from the local area. The military consumption of tens of thousands of people is too large to support locally and needs to be transferred from other places. As a result, the military cost has greatly increased.

Can Liu Bei afford a war of attrition?
After gaining a little confidence, the Yellow Turban Army and Feizhan Group made a decision to resolutely resist this matter, never surrender, never admit defeat, and resolutely resist until complete victory.

Although Guan Yu is strong, they don't think they have no chance of winning.

Indeed, as they said, after Guan Yu personally inspected the terrain of the battlefield, he changed his mind about using the previous tactics in this battle. He believed that the Danyang mountainous area was not suitable for joint operations of large corps, but suitable for interspersed operations with small groups of troops.

However, under the premise of not being familiar with the terrain and lacking reliable guides, it is very dangerous to rashly break up the whole into parts and fight, and it is likely to cause a large number of casualties in the army.

The young teenager Wei Yan put forward some ideas.

"If all the army goes deep into the forest to fight, the enemy is in the dark, and we are in the open. It is very unwise, but if we do the opposite, and draw the thieves out of the forest to fight, we can also give full play to our army's advantages."

"Easier said than done?"

Guan Yu looked at the young Wei Yan and said with a smile, "Is there anything you can do?"

"Why don't you fight first, and then pretend to retreat, so as to attract the bandits to pursue?"

Wei Yan said loudly: "If the general agrees, Yan is willing to lead the army to carry out the mission!"

"This won't work. The danger is too great, but the effect may not be good. The opponent also has a lot of combat experience, not a simple bandit."

Guan Yu shook his head.

Although he rejected Wei Yan's opinion, Guan Yu really liked Wei Yan. He always felt that he could see his appearance more than ten years ago from Wei Yan.

But time has passed, and Guan Yu has become the general of Zhennan, the head of a large military region, with tens of thousands of lives on his shoulders, and he has long since lost the possibility of doing whatever he wants.

However, following Liu Bei, in addition to learning the serious art of war and the art of battle formation, he also did learn some arrogant style.

Because Liu Bei is good at making money and has a solid economic foundation, there is a sense of arrogance in marching and fighting. He likes to use a lot of equipment in battle to increase the probability of winning and reduce casualties. The main thing is that as long as people are alive, things are gone.

Quite arrogant.

Guan Yu still remembers that when he fought in Bingzhou before, Liu Bei equipped them with a lot of fierce fire oil tanks considering the necessity of mountain warfare.

What Liu Bei meant was that when you encounter a relatively high place, don’t always go blindly. It’s better to throw the fierce fire oil tank over in a safe place, let the fire burn unrestrainedly, and make people scream uncontrollably.
Anyway, most of the military buildings are made of wood. As long as it doesn't rain, they can be burned recklessly if they are attacked with heavy fire and oil tanks.

When marching and fighting, you must be good at using the power of water and fire, and you must be good at using the power of things outside your body. Anyway, these things can continue to be produced and used after they are used up, but when people are gone, they are really gone.

It is true that these weapons are expensive, but it is also true that skilled veterans are worth far more than these external possessions.

Guan Yu remembered Liu Bei's instructions to him, so he had a calculation in his heart.

The mountains in the Danyang area are not so much mountains as they are relatively low hills. Compared with the serious and steep mountains of the Taihang Mountains, the hills in Danyang appear to be lower and the slopes are relatively gentle. It is not very difficult to climb.

In this way, more places can be used for farming, more people can be fed, and more places can be used to build settlements and military fortresses.

Guan Yu went all the way south along Lengshui, more than 20 miles northwest of Yuqian County, and began to encounter the defense facilities of the Yellow Turban Army and the Shanyue Group.

They relied on the low hills to build defensive facilities and blocked the narrow mountain roads condescendingly, leaving Guan Yu's army with no choice—only to attack these defensive facilities and lift the blockade of the mountain roads, otherwise the army would not be able to pass through at all.

At this moment, Guan Yu did not order the whole army to launch a general attack. Instead, he asked the technical troops to set up throwing machines, ignite the fire tanks, and slowly advance to the launch position, aiming at the defense facilities of the Yellow Turban Army on the hill.

Heavy rain is normal, and heavy snow is also normal. Occasionally, there are some strong convective weather and hail from the sky. It is not uncommon for people in this place to see it.

But if the sky rains fire, then I have never seen it.

Huge fireballs fell from the sky and hit the ground, doors, houses, and military installations, and then burned blazingly. The wild flames quickly swallowed up the original wooden buildings.

It had snowed heavily before, and the weather cleared up for a while. Guan Yu specially chose this sunny day, and launched his military operations under the warm winter sun.

The technical soldiers wildly threw the burning oil tanks. The oil tanks kept falling on the hills and into the defense facilities of the Yellow Turban Army. The fire was burning, and strangely, it was difficult to put out with water.

The Yellow Turban Army in the facility did not give up resistance at the beginning, but tried hard to resist for a while. Under the command of the officer, they tried to put out the fire with water, but with little effect. The burning buildings were not extinguished by the water, but burned more and more vigorously.

Even the woods were burned, and the thick smoke rose up. People couldn't open their eyes, coughed loudly, and ran around, just looking for a breath of fresh air.

In the end, the more than 1000 Yellow Turbans in the defense facilities couldn't hold on anymore. After paying the price of hundreds of people being burned to death and burnt, they chose to break out.

But a team led by Wei Yan was already waiting for them at the foot of the mountain.

The breakthrough of the Yellow Turban Army was doomed to failure.

In this way, a hill was conquered by Guan Yu in less than a day.

Guan Yu tasted the sweetness, and the Han army also tasted the sweetness. They felt that they had found a good way to deal with the Yellow Turban Army.

That is to burn, keep burning, burn all the way forward, burn him so darkly that the mountains shake.

So while Guan Yu was marching, he went to Luoyang and asked Luoyang to allocate more fierce fire oil tanks to the Jiangnan battlefield, which might also help to completely resolve the Shanyue bandit chaos later.

(End of this chapter)