There are many factors that determine the direction of war.
On a larger scale, military supplies, armaments, military formations, morale, whether the rear is stable, etc., each item may become a winner; on a smaller scale, the general's decision, on-the-spot reaction, the occurrence of special circumstances, etc. It will also have a crucial impact on the situation on the battlefield. Therefore, whether it is a general or a handsome talent, they are very rare. There are only a few who can be called up in history, and there are almost no victorious generals.
But there is one thing that everyone agrees on. No matter what style of play is adopted, no matter what genius-like conception there is, the quality of the army itself must be sufficient, otherwise everything will be useless. The previous generation of Bai Yiqing's battle against the king's capital was widely circulated, so many people felt that when they couldn't win, they smashed the pot and chiseled the boat, and by cutting off the retreat route, they could arouse all the fighting spirit of the soldiers. Can turn defeat into victory. But most of the generals who thought this way were tied up by their subordinates and surrendered when they first issued the order. Occasionally, some of them could successfully cut off their retreat, and most of them were greeted with a more tragic defeat.
The losers have suffered a terrible price, but will not leave the slightest trace in history. People still only remember the tragedy of breaking the boat, and they are full of longing for that kind of epic war, so people who only read military books will definitely not be a good general. Fang Shisan knew this very well. Unless there was a huge change in the form of war in the future, in a war driven by manpower, it would be the soldiers themselves who would affect the direction of the war.
There may be clever strategies, but they are not stable.
Moreover, the strange strategies are also based on the excellent quality of the soldiers. The more dangerous the army is, the more it is required that the people under him have sufficient execution power, so that no mistakes can be made in every link.
Fang Shisan is not a person who advocates unique strategies, because it is often because of disadvantages that he pursues surprises to win. The countless times of hard work in Zhaochen made her very calm when she was young. From the formation of troops to the selection of strategies, she made sure that nothing leaked, and she also guarded against every move of the enemy during the attack.
Just like now, Fang Shisan is sitting in a wheelchair, but what he thinks about in his mind is a whole map of Yunyang.
The army formation that Lord Yunyang put up today is not conventional. The number of people in the square formation is different, and the arrangement is also very special. It is difficult to estimate the number of opponents by visual inspection. You can only roughly judge that the number of people on your side is two to three times. about. Why does this happen? Because Lord Yunyang did not pin all his hopes on this war, he must have left behind.
Although the lord of Yunyang clearly issued an invitation to fight, he did not put all his troops on the surface. Some soldiers went elsewhere, so where would they go
Maybe they stayed in Lingyun City, maybe they lay in ambush near the battlefield, but it was more likely that they went to the territory controlled by Yuxi City.
Taking advantage of the emptiness of the defense there, they burned, killed and looted like horse bandits, spreading fear and panic, so that Fang Shisan could not get the protection of the territory. Lord Yunyang didn't expect to take this opportunity to get much land. All he had to do was to cause chaos in the rear of Yuxi City, which would directly affect the combat effectiveness of Fang Shisan's army.
Who will it be
Those who do this must be veterans, so there is a high probability that Lord Yunyang transferred some of the border troops with extremely strong combat effectiveness. Among the two frontier armies, Lord Yunyang cannot trust the southern frontier army Karpass, so the southern frontier army will definitely stay on the frontal battlefield. Otherwise, let this group of people go to Yuxi City, and it would be a blood loss if the meat bun beats the dog. Taking advantage of the large number of people on the frontal battlefield, Karpass did not dare to act rashly even if he had any ideas.
Therefore, it can be inferred that the northern frontier army led by Asilante is not actually on the frontal battlefield.
They will take a detour to the city controlled by Yuxi City, kill people and set fires along the way, creating the illusion that Yuxi City has been defeated and Yunyang has begun to launch a counterattack, and then return, and enter Yuxi City's army formation from the rear, fighting Fang Shisanyi I was caught off guard. In the map in Fang Shisan's mind, several arrows extended from Yunyang to the city under Yuxi City, and gradually expanded, a complete action route gradually took shape.
However, in fact, this arrow is not established, and it is interrupted from a certain node.
Asilante should come back early, because Fang Shisan had calculated the possibility of being attacked in the rear before the battle started.
This is the biggest problem with Qi Ce. Facing a general like Fang Shisan who is known for his prudence, it is really difficult for Qi Ce to play a big role. When he was in Zhaochen that year, Fang Shisan had guessed the opponent's attack route seven times in a row, insisting on defending an isolated city. This kind of ability has not weakened in the slightest after coming to Yuxi City, but has become more acute.
She had already arranged defenses and ambushes in advance. If Asilante insisted on carrying out this sneak attack strategy to the end, then he should be prepared to kill more than half of the members on the spot.
There is one less Asilante on the frontal battlefield, and to be honest, the impact is not big. A war involving hundreds of thousands of people is hard to be turned back by anyone. Except for people like Qingyun who are at the top of the realm who are qualified to change their lives against the sky, it is also difficult for other ordinary masters to perform particularly brilliantly in this kind of place. In the same way, the northern frontier army now only accounts for a small part of Yunyang's army. With them or without them, at least in the melee stage, there is not much difference.
The premise is that this situation cannot collapse.
The melee stage didn't have much technical content, and the lord of Yunyang still chose this kind of open area. There are no mountains and hills around, no forests and shrubs, and no big rivers. Deploying the army in this area can maximize the advantage of Yunyang in numbers, and at the same time lower the upper limit of the operations of the generals of both sides.
At this stage, everyone is competing to see which army can last longer and who will collapse slower. Both armies are new armies, and Fang Shisan can't ask his soldiers to fight desperately while implementing complicated tactics, let alone Yunyang's side. Therefore, this battle that can determine the direction of Yunyang has a lot less bells and whistles on the frontal battlefield, and it is more like fighting for basic skills.
There is a thin line between killing and being killed.
The ups and downs of morale are also separated by a thin line.
Perhaps whoever kills a small leader of the opponent will drive his own army into a state of excitement quickly, and then take advantage for a short time. Or maybe whoever has an emotional breakdown, throws away his armor and wants to escape, and the people around him will fall into a huge negativity.
These are controllable and uncontrollable, and they are also one of the factors that cause the battlefield situation to change rapidly.
Selaginella, the commander of Wangdong First Division, shot through the chest of a Yunyang soldier, and a figure appeared in his mind involuntarily. It would be great if Luge was here too. This kind of war was the favorite war of the Xuanjia Battalion back then. Formation, they can also tear a hole.