Liu Mang didn't need to lecture, and he didn't need to boost the morale of these urban management troops. None of them who were able to join the urban management army was bad. In this era, there is no such thing as retiring from the army, and none of the columns were captured, all of them were killed in battle, and some seriously injured even chose to commit suicide in order not to drag down their teammates.
"Brothers, let's go!" Liu Mang waved his hand, and no one had brought enough dry food for three days, so we were on our way.
There is an endless plain outside Gwangju City. Liu Mang and his army hid all the bed crossbows in the army to prevent people from discovering the appearance of the bed crossbows. They also covered them with some white cloth to hide his traces.
After walking for quite a while, Liu Mang saw a hill. The hill was not big at all, but it could hide fifty bed crossbows. I can't wait to see the scenes in other places on the plain, so it's a good place to ambush.
"Zi Yang, we set up an ambush here!" Liu Mang was very satisfied with this hill, and it was really not easy to find such a small hill in Yangzhou, Yuzhou. This shows that Liu Mang's luck is still good.
Liu Mang originally thought that Liu Ye would agree with the place he chose to decorate together, but Liu Ye shook his head and stopped directly, "My lord, we can't set up an ambush here!"
"Isn't it good here?!" Liu Mang was very surprised. It was lucky to find the current mound in such a plain place.
"It's not bad. If it's just an ambush, of course it's good, but you have to know that we are here to make bait. If you put it on a hill, who else will come to eat this bait?!" Liu Ye faced Liu Mang explained. This is a hill to ambush. It's hard to find a second piece better than him in this plain, but don't forget, you can see it, but the enemy can't see it! As soon as Xiliang Iron Cavalry arrived at the junction of Yuzhou and Yangzhou, instead of escorting food and grass directly, they came to the city of Guangzhou to show off their might. With such a move, Liu Ye knew that the man in charge of the army was not a brainless person. waste. He is a man who knows the art of war, knows when to show his muscles, and when to withdraw his sharpness. For example, when he came to Gwangju, he did not shout or send letters, but marched Outside Gwangju City, this is telling Liu Mang not to act rashly. They were invited by Liu Bei to escort the food and grass, not Liu Bei's army, and they will not play head-to-head with you. It's unknown to go too far to stimulate Liu Mang's main force in Gwangju City, but if you give face, it's shameless. Then don't blame the Xiliang iron cavalry.
Such a general, do you think he is a simple person? This is a good place to ambush. Once he sees it, he will not be suspicious! I'm afraid that for the sake of safety, they may not even come to bite the bait, or strengthen their guard, so that the subsequent ambush will increase the damage for nothing.
"Then where should we go to ambush?!" Liu Mang really doesn't know as much as Liu Ye about this, so naturally he doesn't understand, so naturally let Liu Ye handle everything. He, Liu Mang, knows these first-class advisers in this era, but Not a simple character.
"My lord, look, there!" Liu Ye and Liu Mang climbed the hill together, they raised their eyes and looked down, and Liu Ye pointed to a plain area and said to Liu Mang, "It's there, that's where we are. This time is a make or break place!"
"There? How is it possible?!" Liu Mang followed the place Liu Ye pointed to, and immediately felt that it was impossible, because the place Liu Ye pointed to was not other places, but a place with the widest view and no danger. In the defensive place, if the army deploys defense there, then even if it can stand up to the army, its strength will not be comparable to that of the Xiliang Iron Cavalry, because the wider the area, the more the impact of the Xiliang Iron Cavalry heavy armored cavalry can be reflected , and that place happened to be close to a small hill. If Liu Mang was the chief general of the Xiliang Iron Cavalry, he would definitely use the slope of this hill to maximize the horsepower. Straight up.
This is not the key point, the key point is that you stand on the hill and have a clear view of that place, so how can you ambush in such a place! Where do you place the fifty bed crossbows? If you garrison them below, the people on the hills will watch his every move. How can he ambush him? How can he beat a Xiliang iron cavalry? I was caught off guard. Not to mention fifty bed crossbows, even fifty people are very conspicuous there.
"Hehe, my lord, we can't ambush fifty bed crossbows on the ground, but why do we have to ambush the bed crossbows on the ground?!" Liu Ye asked a rhetorical question, which really made Liu Mang feel touched. Don't think about it, if this bed crossbow is not lying in ambush above the ground, is it still placed in the sky and sent to the ground, the ground? Liu Mang's eyes lit up suddenly, and he asked Liu Ye hastily, "Zi Yang, what do you mean?!"
Liu Ye saw Liu Mang's haste and naturally knew that his lord Liu Mang had already guessed the mystery, "That's right, we don't have to put the bed crossbow on the ground, there is nowhere to hide there, put fifty Putting the bed crossbow there is clearly telling the enemy that we are ambushing you, we are letting you take the bait, Xiliang cavalry can tell it at a glance, but once the bed crossbow is placed on the ground, it will be different! Of course not Simply dig a hole to put all fifty bed crossbows in, but need to dig a good foundation, and also need a slope that can push the bed crossbows above the attacking position, and the turf on the plains cannot be all Throw it away, the turf can be used as a perfect camouflage, so that even from the hills, you can't see where the ambush is, and once the Xiliang iron cavalry is baited, you can directly lift the turf from the ground, fifty All the bed crossbows were pushed to the ground, and the ambush formed in this way would be perfect, and it would really catch the Xiliang iron cavalry by surprise.
Think about it! On this hill, you can see the camp below, so the soldiers and horses can be seen at a glance, and the surrounding area cannot be ambushed, so he is naturally confident, so that once he relaxes, it will be the end of the Xiliang Iron Cavalry.
"Haha. Good. Just do it!" Liu Mang was very straightforward. What Liu Ye said was what he said, and 2,500 soldiers started to work. Although they did not have professional digging tools, they did have swords, and some simply found a piece of wood and dug it with simple wooden work. land.
This is the junction of Yangzhou and Yuzhou. There is a lot of rain in itself, so it is easier to dig up the wet soil on the ground, but it needs wood to consolidate after digging. Otherwise, the newly dug tunnel might be re-filled with silt. The speed of the 2,500 people was very fast, and the general outline had been dug out in less than half a day.
"In this way, in this way, I only need to put ten bed crossbows in the middle, and put 20 on each side of the remaining forty!" Liu Mang said to the soldiers who were digging holes, and he was directing These soldiers were working, and Liu Mang himself was not idle.
"My lord, why don't you arrange all the bed crossbows in the center?!" Liu Ye's plan is to hide these bed crossbows underground, and the bed crossbows need to be gathered in a large area. Only in this way can he truly display his strength, so Liu Ye's plan is to put these fifty bed crossbows together. Such a cluster of fifty bed crossbows is not only a manifestation of combat effectiveness, but also a deterrent. Now, once the bed crossbow is separated, his deterrent power will be greatly reduced, and Liu Ye doesn't think that the fighting power will be stronger if separated.
"Hehe, Zi Yang, I am not as good as you in making plans and making suggestions, but your lord has some heresy ways that you don't understand!" Liu Mang said to Liu Ye with a smile, it was impossible for him to explain to Liu Ye what is called crossover Firepower, what is firepower blockade, although fifty bed crossbows block you together, it has a deterrent effect, but his combat effectiveness is greatly reduced, because such an attack will be depressed, and an enemy may be hit by two giant arrows. Going through, a dead person may waste the arrows of the giant arrow, and the arrows of the bed crossbow brought by Liu Mang and the others are not too many. It is impossible for one person to receive the treatment of a giant arrow, but there are a total of 8,000 people on the opposite side. In this way, ten bed crossbows are placed in the middle, which can ensure that the middle will not be broken by heavy armored cavalry, and can also introduce pressure to the urban management troops in the front, and the forty crossbows on both sides are the real gods of death. Not only does the firepower cover a wide area, but his damage rarely overflows, so no matter where the Xiliang iron cavalry attacks from, the bed crossbow troops can block him.
"Huh? Really?!" Liu Ye still didn't understand, but luckily Liu Mang continued, "Hao Shao, Hao Botong, relying on such an arrangement in Gwangju, shot and killed thousands of Liu Bei's troops!" Hao Shao's trip to Gwangju really made Liu Ye nod and praise him. Liu Ye even told Liu Mang in private that such a person is a talent, and he needs to pay more attention to Hao Shao. There were only two thousand garrison troops under Hao Shao's command. Relying on the blunt crotch of a small county with no danger to defend, he undertook the attack of Liu Bei's 20,000 army and shot and killed nearly 5,000 people. Such a record, no matter where it is placed In the army, it was all brilliant, and I lost less than a thousand people in the battle. Who wouldn't like this one-to-five ratio
"Well, that's the best!" Liu Ye didn't ask Liu Mang to prove anything to him, because Liu Mang had a lot of things that Liu Ye had never heard of.
"Okay, now that the arrangements are made here, the next part is how we can make this Xiliang cavalry cat smell fishy!" After half a day, everything was basically done, and Liu Mang even came to the mountain The purpose of the hilltop is to test the appearance of the ambush camp below from the hillside to see if it is really hidden. Liu Mang can have a clue, but that is when he uses the telescope in his hand. It can be seen that something is different from the total, because after all, the ground was dug, and the new soil deposited on the ground was turned over, which is still somewhat different from the surrounding old soil, but don’t forget, this is the case when using a telescope Under the circumstances, Liu Mang knew subconsciously that there was an ambush in his own mind, and only then could he discover the difference. If it was replaced by the Xiliang iron cavalry without binoculars, or the leader of the Xiliang iron cavalry who did not know that there was an ambush, it would be another What a result!
"Don't worry! My lord, Liu Ye has already done all of this!" Liu Ye nodded to Liu Mang and said. When the soldiers and horses left Gwangju, Liu Ye released the scouts and the fishy smell of the bait, and now he is waiting for the Xiliang cavalry to take the bait! (to be continued..)