The last three kingdoms

Chapter 800 New Countermeasures
Cui You pointed to the roads and passes on the map and said, "Although there are many mountain roads in Shangdang, they are not without traces. Please see, Your Majesty, there are three horizontal and three vertical roads in Shangdang. , are mostly branch roads of these main roads, and each main road is connected with one or several passes. Now the Shu army is interspersed and detoured, taking advantage of both sides, while our army is exhausted, and it is always a bad move. I thought I wanted to To change such a passive situation, it is necessary to adopt prison warfare, control these main roads, and set up villages at these passes, so as to effectively control the range of activities of the Shu people. Taking Gu Yuan as an example, the Shu army is now occupying Gu Yuan , our army does not need to march far away, we only need to station heavy troops at these passes, cut off the roads from east to west, north to south, and restrict the people of Shu to the area of ​​Guyuan. Far below the city."

Cui You's tactic is not simply to divide the troops, but to seize important passes in advance, cut off the most important roads in Shangdang territory, form the largest cage, and trap the Shu army in the cage. In this way, the Shu army could not move and was confined to a small area. When the conditions were ripe, the Huns' army would come from all directions and completely encircle and wipe out the Shu army.

It has to be said that Cui You's tactics are very creative, allowing the Xiongnu army to transform from a passive state to an active state, dividing troops without advancing rashly, and fundamentally avoiding the possibility of being defeated by the Shu army one by one.These passes are all dangerous places, easy to defend and difficult to attack. As long as the Huns occupy these passes first, it is equivalent to adding a chain to the Shu army running around, so that they can no longer act recklessly.

As long as the living space of the Shu army can be compressed and they are limited to a certain area, Liu Yuan can give full play to the Huns' superiority in military strength and encircle and wipe out the Shu army.

"Okay, this plan is very clever!" Liu Yuan praised, and immediately adopted Cui You's tactics, divided his troops to control important passes in Shangdang's territory, and extensively repaired fortifications, thinking that it would be a long-term solution.

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The battle of Guyuan was fought neatly, and the Shu army marched continuously for three days and three nights, driving more than two hundred miles of mountain roads, leaving the Huns' pursuers far behind, and easily Take Gu Yuancheng.

To the Jie people in the city, the methods of the Shu army were as cruel as ever, beheading a row of generals without leaving a single survivor. Although this method of using violence to control violence is not advisable, these Jie people are too cruel. A hundred deaths can never atone for his crimes. Liu Yin did this to boost morale, to show that he had completely broken with the Hu people, and to win the hearts of the people. Yin won a high reputation among the Han people.

Some rescued Han people presented Liu Yin with a local specialty - millet.Guyuan was later known as Qinyuan, and Qinzhouhuang’s millet was famous all over the world. It had already been planted on a large scale in the Han Dynasty, and it was paid tribute to the court as tribute rice.But Liu Yin doesn't care if it's tribute rice or not, the food is used to fill the belly, the taste is second, and it is very important to get the support of the Han people in Guyuan and solve the food and grass crisis faced by the Shu army At the same time, it also strengthened Liu Yin's people-oriented strategy.

After entering Shangdang, he fought three consecutive battles, conquered three counties, and won three consecutive battles, but Liu Yin did not show any ease. After all, when the Huns were overwhelming, every battle was on thin ice. Yin had to move and fight to avoid the sharp edge of the Huns.

While attacking Gu Yuan, Liu Yin had already determined his next battle strategy, which was to intersperse and detour within a larger range to drag down Liu Yuan's army. Liu Yin jokingly called his tactics "mushroom strategy". tactics".

As the name suggests, "mushroom tactics" is to use the method of grinding to deal with powerful enemies. The Shu army can indeed play the highest level in the mountainous area where it is good at, leading the Huns by the nose and killing them. Play around and around, and eventually get dragged down to death.

However, the news from the front made Liu Yin a little surprised. The Xiongnu went uncharacteristically this time and did not push towards Gu Yuan, which was quite different from the previous actions in Nie County and Xiangyuan.

The Huns didn't come, so of course Liu Yin didn't have to rush to leave. He just took this opportunity to let the troops take a rest. After all, continuous high-intensity marches dragged down the enemy and he was also very tired.

But Liu Yin is still a little worried. This kind of abnormal behavior should not be Liu Yuan's character. Liu Yuan has been chasing after him all the way. There is no reason why he would choose to give up, unless he has a new tactical arrangement.

Sure enough, the news that came continuously afterwards confirmed Liu Yin's guess. The Huns gave up their continuous pursuit and adopted the method of siege on all sides to compress the living space of the Shu army.

If the Xiongnu simply adopted the method of siege from all sides, Liu Yin would not be afraid at all. If Liu Yuan's [-] troops were huddled together, Liu Yin wondered if he would have the appetite to digest such a huge army, but if the Huns divided their troops and marched , Liu Yin can completely defeat each of them, Liu Yin is not afraid of this, on the contrary, he will feel that it is in the right place.

But the strategy adopted by the Huns at this moment was beyond everyone's expectations. This time the Huns did not chase after them, but the latest trends show that the Huns did not rest, but snatched some important passes. The Shu army in Guyuan carried out a strategic encirclement.

The intention of the Huns is obvious, that is, to establish an unbreakable encirclement circle in the pass area, so as to compress the living space of the Shu army.

In the previous battles, the Huns had always been like headless flies, and had no choice but to chase them desperately.But now the Xiongnu are obviously no longer eager to attack, and have even completely given up on the surface of offensive methods, and have established strongholds and checkpoints around Gu Yuan.

"If you guess correctly, Liu Yuan's latest strategy is cage tactics." Liu Yin said to the generals at the meeting, "Liu Yuan has realized that he will never be able to catch up with our army by blindly chasing. Yes, the result can only be that we cannibalize one city after another. Now Liu Yuan has changed his combat strategy, focusing on difficulties and supplementing by attack. Liu Yin tried to block us by strengthening the defense forces of these passes. Surround and trap the west of Shangdang, trap and destroy it. Everyone, the situation is not optimistic. In order to break the cage tactics of the barbarians, we must find new countermeasures."

(End of this chapter)