Traveling through Tianlong: Starting from the Zhenlong chess game

Chapter 657 Guerrilla Tactics
Seeing Zhao Mu awake, a guard from the Dragon Guard stepped forward and reported: "Your Majesty, the generals have been waiting outside for a long time. Can Your Majesty see them?"

Zhao Mu and Li Canghai put on their clothes, and several other Dragon Guards also acted as maids, helping Zhao Mu make his bed and grooming him.

Zhao Mu saw that Li Canghai had packed up, and then said, "Let them all come in."

"Yes!" After receiving Zhao Mu's order, the Dragon Guards summoned everyone to the tent to discuss matters. Afterwards, the Dragon Guards also arranged rows of stools and small bamboo stools in the tent.

Zhao Mu sat in the first seat in the middle. After the generals saluted Zhao Mu, they also sat down.

Zhao Mu looked at everyone and said, "I heard from the Dragon Guards that you have been waiting outside for a long time. Do you have anything important to report to me?"

At this time, the vanguard general stood up and said, "Your Majesty, how did your Majesty explore the city last night? When will we attack the city?"

In response to his question, Zhao Mu waved his hand and asked him to sit down first.

Zhao Mu then said, "Let's not rush to attack the city. This time is different from the past. The Liao army has deployed elite troops in Youzhou City, and they are outnumbered. They have also closed the four gates as if they were trying to fight to the death. With our current strength, although we can take the city, we will certainly suffer heavy casualties."

At this time, the general said, "Your Majesty, we are born in the army and we are paid by the emperor. We should be loyal to the country. Since Your Majesty has a chance of winning, we are willing to serve! Even if it means death!"

The other generals also echoed.

At this moment, the generals' eyes were filled with the desire to fight. This was because this was a battle for them to avenge their humiliation, and in addition to making achievements, they also wanted to go down in history.

Moreover, they had been marching and fighting for many years. Although few of them had fought in a serious large-scale battle, they had fought bandits and conquered various mountains in various places over the years, and they had fought hard. In their impression, as long as they could win the battle, some casualties were inevitable.

Zhao Mu now vowed that he could win, but it would cost him heavy casualties. This was enough for them.

And not only them, but also many soldiers who were fed up with the Liao people had the same idea. They were not afraid of death, but they were afraid of dying unworthy. They were not afraid of casualties, but they were afraid that they would suffer heavy casualties like in the Battle of Gaoliang River and the Yongxi Northern Expedition, and still fail to win.

But compared to these, they were more afraid of a situation like the Chanyuan Alliance, where they had to pay tribute to the Liao people even though they had won the war. They could be cowardly, but they could not die like cowards.

The Song Dynasty's military preparations had been in disrepair for many years, all thanks to the incompetent Emperor Zhenzong. If the Song Dynasty's army was really incompetent and lost the battle, whether it was ceding land to the Liao people or becoming a vassal, the Song Dynasty's warriors would feel humiliated, but they would accept it. Who made these warriors incompetent and unable to defeat the Liao barbarians?

However, once the Treaty of Chanyuan was established, it immediately chilled everyone's hearts.

They clearly won the battle at the cost of their lives, but they still had to pay tribute to the Liao people. Wasn't their sacrifice in vain?

Moreover, Song Zhenzong shamelessly regarded this as his own "achievement" and went to Mount Tai to offer sacrifices to the gods. This also made the Song Dynasty lose the hearts of the military men.

Facing the fearless eyes of the generals, Zhao Mu waved his hands and said, "I admire your fearless spirit. But everyone has only one life. I am your commander. Since I brought you out, I must be responsible for you and your wives and children. I don't want your wives and children to know that you died for the country. Since we can reduce casualties, why do we need to attack by force?"

Hearing this, Li Canghai couldn't help but ask: "Why? Your Majesty has thought of a way to attack the city?"

Hearing Li Canghai's words, all the generals looked at her.

At this time, Li Canghai realized that he had said the wrong thing. After all, as a "Dragon Guard", she was not qualified to participate in the pre-war military meeting, let alone interrupt. However, the words had been spoken, and they could not be taken back like spilled water. Li Canghai did not care about the looks of the generals, and then repeated his question and said, "Your Majesty, have you thought of a solution?"

Zhao Mu nodded and said, "Of course I thought of it. I thought of it last night."

Moreover, the inspiration for this method was given to him by Li Canghai. However, the inspiration for this idea was a bit embarrassing to talk about, and Zhao Mu was not in a position to speak it out in front of everyone.

This method is actually very simple, it is a simple "strategy of tiring out the troops" or "round-the-clock warfare".

Last night, Zhao Mu and Li Canghai played from early morning until noon, and then they fell asleep in each other's arms.

Originally, Zhao Mu didn't want to end the old relationship with Li Canghai, but he couldn't resist the interest of this old woman, Li Canghai, and she always mocked Zhao Mu from time to time.

Whenever Zhao Mu finished and wanted to rest, she would whisper in his ear, saying flirtatious words like he was useless.

In order not to lose face as a man, Zhao Mu had to play with her for a while longer. The two of them played from dawn until noon when Li Canghai was tired and fell asleep.

It was this incident that gave Zhao Mu inspiration. If Li Canghai could torture him like this and make him feel annoyed, then he could also make the Liao army in the city feel annoyed.

After all, there are more than 100,000 people on my side, and although the Liao army in the city is elite, it is less than 100,000 at most. I have an absolute numerical advantage.

As long as the hundreds of thousands of troops were divided into several groups, and the Liao army was attacked continuously in a round-robin manner, the Liao army defending the city would always be in a state of mental tension and fatigue.

In this way, he would have the possibility to capture Youzhou City with the lowest losses.

Although these people are absolutely elite with high martial arts skills and excellent equipment, they are also human beings.

Anyone will get tired, and we have more people than them.

As long as we continue to harass them, we will soon be able to consume their energy to the maximum extent. Once we consume their energy, we can easily win.

Zhao Mu then told everyone about his plan and gave a brief explanation.

Everyone praised Zhao Mu's good idea. After all, this guerrilla warfare, the war strategy of "when the enemy advances, we retreat; when the enemy retreats, we pursue; when the enemy stays, we harass; when the enemy tires, we attack", was a bit ahead of its time for people of this era.

The main reason why this style of warfare could be implemented was that Zhao Mu had a large number of troops and was the initiator of the war.

After all, Zhao Mu didn't have to worry about defending the city. He could fight when he wanted to and retreat when he wanted to. In this way, he could firmly grasp the initiative of the war and firmly restrict the elite troops of the Liao Kingdom here, or even eat him here.

"That's it. As long as we keep harassing and make the defenders in the city restless, we will poke them from time to time. They don't know whether we are really attacking the city or just feinting. Therefore, they dare not slack off every time. I believe that in a few days, they will be exhausted both physically and mentally, and their combat effectiveness will be greatly reduced. Then we will have an opportunity to take advantage of them."

(End of this chapter)