Xiang Yu fights the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 47 Strategic Choice
Sun Jian also has several choices at present. First, he can choose to attack Han Sui’s food transport team that is ready to defend at all costs. After all, Sun Jian now has the initiative to attack and has completely forced the opponent to death in one place. He can choose Attack the opponent at any time, but the opponent does not have any conditions to counterattack. In this case, as long as he is patient enough, he can always find a better time to attack.

Moreover, Sun Jian can also choose to attack continuously in batches, for example, divide his cavalry into three to five batches, and then send a group of troops to attack the enemy's camp each time, so that even if each attack may not be able to How great a record has been achieved, but in the process, it can kill the enemy's will very well. Think about being beaten in the morning, beaten at noon, beaten in the afternoon, beaten at night, and beaten while sleeping. After several days, the defender's will to fight will definitely be greatly reduced, and it will only be a matter of time before they finally lose their fighting power.

It's just that such a tactic needs more time, and after all, the grain transport team lacks everything, but no shortage of food. On the other hand, Sun Jian's two thousand cavalry needs a lot of food, so even with This tactic must not be delayed for too long, otherwise the advantages may be exchanged by then.

The second option is to divide the troops. Some soldiers will surround this part of the troop transport team, and then Sun Jian will lead the rest of the troops to continue to chase the other grain transport teams eastward. This option also has advantages and disadvantages. The advantage is that Sun Jian's army You can temporarily avoid the difficult bone in front of you, and use the mobility advantage of the cavalry to continue to chase forward. After all, you will be able to find other troop carriers. It is impossible for every troop carrier to be able to find such a good defense. Location.

And this tough bone is not completely without chance. As mentioned earlier, Sun Jianjun always has the initiative to attack. Fighting the troop transport team is just catching a turtle in the urn. Sooner or later, it can be defeated. The goal of cutting off Han Sui's front army rations has been achieved, and it should be Han Sui's army and not Sun Jian's army that should be anxious.

But this choice also has disadvantages for Sun Jian. On the one hand, Sun Jian has to divide his troops. The number of 500 cavalry is not many. There are only [-] cavalry, and if he continues to advance east, he may encounter the main force that Han Suihui rescued, so this choice is very risky. Han Sui's main force is mainly cavalry, and A large part of them are Qiang cavalry who are very good at riding and shooting. Although Sun Jian's cavalry can be regarded as elite, their combat effectiveness may not be stronger than Han Sui's cavalry, and under the huge disadvantage of numbers, they can only escape. up.

After all, whether it is Xiang Yu or Sun Jian, their main combat goal is to cut off Han Sui's logistical food supply. Now they have initially achieved this, but Han Sui's troops will definitely counterattack in the future. Preserving one's own combat power and avoiding fighting with Han Sui's main force is the best choice. As long as the thousands of cavalry of Xiang Yu and Sun Jian exist, Han Sui's rear food supply will be very tight. The morale of the main force will be even worse.

But although Sun Jian is very clear about what his main combat goal is, but because he wants to gain more military exploits than Xiang Yu in his heart, he is unlikely to be satisfied with achieving his original basic goal. I am relatively confident in my battlefield command ability. On the one hand, my brain is also occupied by the desire to win, and it is very possible to take the risk of attacking eastward.

On the other hand, Sun Jian may not be willing to waste too much time and strength on the defensive troop transport team, so this situation leads to Sun Jian's third option.

That is to directly give up the attack on this troop carrier completely, leaving only a handful of dozens of at most a hundred riders to keep vigilance and scout this troop carrier, and all the rest of the troops follow Sun Jian to march eastward. Under such circumstances, Sun Jian must have a strong desire for adventure. If he succeeds, he may achieve great military exploits, which will help him win the competition with Xiang Yu and satisfy his desire to win.

And if it fails, for example, if it encounters Han Sui's main force counterattack, then his cavalry-based troops still have a chance to retreat. There is no advantage. On the contrary, sometimes the side with a small number of people is more likely to break up into pieces, using guerrilla tactics to contain the enemy's large army with a small force, and then take advantage of the opportunity to fight more and less locally to earn battle losses.

Of course, whether Sun Jian's troops have such superb tactics and execution capabilities is still unclear, but this is also a way.

But the risk of this choice is definitely the greatest. First of all, Sun Jian's troops are already in the state after a long-distance attack, and the entire army is exhausted. Combat strength, if you really encounter Han Sui's main counterattack at that time, it is very likely that the large army will be defeated. In that case, no matter how powerful Sun Jian is, he will be powerless. The entire army will disperse as soon as it is said, and there will be no chance Put it back together.

At the same time, when the situation is unfavorable, the unresolved troop transport team in the rear will also become a hindrance to the rear, and the most important point is that once Sun Jian's army is defeated, the plan to cut off Han Sui's rear grain transport line It was half a failure. On the one hand, Han Sui's main force could regain food supplies in time after the retreat, and on the other hand, Sun Jian's defeat would put all the pressure on Xiang Yu, which would make the already extremely difficult strategy even more difficult. difficulty.

Sun Jian and his soldiers had a long debate on these three strategies. The main point of the debate was whether to go eastward with all their strength, or to attack the food transport team in front of them with all their strength, which is mainly the first strategy. The difference between the choice and the third option is that not many people mention the second option. After all, in many people's eyes, there is not much difference between leaving 500 people and leaving dozens of people. Stay, this is what these soldiers think.

Of course, Sun Jian and a small number of main combat factions are inclined to the third option, but most of Sun Jian's soldiers are still more inclined to the first option. Of course, it is also because they are not like Sun Jian. Xiang Yu decided to choose the first strategy, which was safer and more in line with their original combat goal, which was to destroy and delay Han Sui's rear food supply for as long as possible.

In their view, a confrontation with Han Sui is definitely the next choice. They really can't figure out why Sun Jian would support the third strategy, but after all, Sun Jian is the leader of this army, so in the face of more opposition. However, Sun Jian had no choice but to forcefully implement the third strategy, so he had to adjourn the meeting for the time being, while he drank alone in the tent.

(End of this chapter)