Zhao Bing was not disgusted with his ministers' objections at the meeting, but instead encouraged him. Because he knew that a person's thinking often became solidified, and brainstorming could open up ideas and obtain more reasonable plans in arguments. Of course, he would also defend his views and make everyone accept his plans, but this was also after listening to everyone's opinions.

Now that the generals have no objection to the strategic arrangements, the focus is on discussing tactical issues. However, Zhao Bing focused on the plan of ambushing the enemy troops across the river, and seemed to be less concerned about attacking Yangzhou. Of course, this was due to the consideration of winning the first battle, but in fact, ambushing is not easier than offensive battles, and in his opinion, it is more difficult.

Practice is the only criterion for testing truth. Zhao Bing now has a deep understanding of this. Among the various war-related art works in his previous life, ambush and ambush may be the most common scenes. It is also undeniable that ambush and warfare in battle are also quite effective, and it is the best way to defeat the strong with the weak and severely damage the enemy.

In general, the reason why ambush tactics can still appear on the human battlefield from time to time today is largely due to the powerful role of this tactic that can "get a big pound". However, to fight a perfect ambush battle, it also requires a very high military skill and skill. After all, war is never a joke.

However, Zhao Bing thought that the most difficult thing about ambush war was not after the battle began, but before and after the war. In modern wars, satellites and aircraft in the sky closely monitored the ground, and reconnaissance vehicles and hiking scouts on the ground in depth to conduct reconnaissance, which greatly increased the difficulty of ambushing. Some people must have said that in ancient times, there were no high-tech things, and it was definitely no problem to ambush the enemy in the canyon and dense forests.

In fact, this is a misleading, because in many people's impression, ambush warfare is to occupy both ends of the canyon, and then use rockfalls and various ranged weapons to attack. But the real battlefield situation is far from that simple. First of all, the terrain of the canyon is mostly common in mountainous areas like the Taihang Mountains. In the vast hilly and plain areas of China, this terrain is difficult to find. Therefore, most ambush warfares are actually carried out with a slight height advantage or even the same height.

The ambushing of Pang Juan on Maling Road is the most famous example. In reality, this area is just a relatively low hilly and mountainous area. Secondly, ambush warfare cannot be achieved easily and zero casualties with only long-range weapons. In fact, when encountering an ambush, the ambush side will often use corresponding tactics to avoid casualties. Even in modern and modern wars, ambush warfare often becomes a pursuit war or even a tough battle.

In the era of cold weapons, due to the low killing efficiency of weapons such as bows and crossbows alone, it is even more impossible for ambush wars to rely solely on long-range weapons. Instead, after completing the ambush, they will use the terrain advantages to launch an encirclement and annihilation battle. The Wei army, which was ambushed and annihilated in the Battle of Malingdao, was actually just a light infantry that Pang Juan "abandoned his infantry and chased him in parallel with his light and sharpness."

Moreover, according to Pang Juan's record of "knowing that Zhiqiong was defeated, he quarreled and said, 'It became the name of a son!", the Wei army also resisted for a certain period of time. In the absence of hope of breaking through, Pang Juan committed suicide. The real severe damage to the Wei army was after Pang Juan's death on Malingdao, "Qi defeated his army by taking advantage of the victory."

Then some people will ask questions, are the ambushed enemies blind when they lose their terrain advantage? So many people are lying in ambush, but they can't see them. Especially in the battle of ancient large corps, tens of thousands of people are also a spectacular scene that stretches for more than ten miles, and the enemy will also detect cavalry and provoke everywhere. How can such a large formation not be discovered?

The reason is actually very simple. It is not that the ambushed people are blinded, but in fact the ambushed troops are often out of the sight of the ambushed. In ancient times, wars were all based on formation and organization. It took a long time for troops in marching to convert into combat formation. Moreover, for the sake of saving physical strength, soldiers in marching were often light-fitted and only carried their own sub-weapons. Armor and long-handled weapons were often loaded on vehicles and beasts in the team.

In essence, the ambush actually attacks the ambushers in non-combat formations and states in combat. That is to say, they are determined to make a mistake without intention, and they are prepared to fight without preparation. Therefore, when the ambushers can see the enemy, the opponent must have been pressed over with a dignified formation. At this time, the ambushers are still busy changing their formations, collecting and allocating weapons. Once this situation is formed, it will basically be a unilateral massacre of the ambushers.

But in order to achieve this unexpected attack, it is not just to hide outside the enemy's sight. In wars of any era, intelligence is always the most important. Therefore, in ancient wars, when the army marched, it often sent out posts to reconnaise the surrounding situation at any time. Their role is not only to reconnaise the marching route, but also to warn the enemy.

However, due to technical limitations, the reconnaissance range that ancient sentry detectives can actually be carried out is quite limited, so there is a difference between ten or twenty miles of sentry detectives. In addition, the ambushing party will also send scouts and rangers to counterattack the opponent's sentry detectives to prevent them from obtaining intelligence. If you want to avoid the enemy's reconnaissance, you must be very familiar with the local terrain. In fact, most ambushings are basically carried out when the enemy is not familiar with the local terrain.

Therefore, whether there will be an enemy ambush on the marching route will be Zhao Bing believes that the judgment of the general is often the most important factor. In this case, the general's judgment of the marching route often has to rely on the results of the marching probe's reconnaissance, but when the marching probe must take priority over the exploration of the marching route, it is more difficult for the marching probe to effectively track the enemy's position. In addition to being able to successfully grasp the enemy's marching route, a successful ambush battle also ensures that his actions are not recognized by the enemy's reconnaissance, and also confusing the judgment of the enemy's generals, of course, it also requires some luck.

Especially in some terrain that are quite complex, such as jungles, mountainous areas, the effect of ambush war is often more significant. In the Mongolian war against Annan, Annan side used ambush tactics many times, which significantly better than its Mongolian army, which was significantly better than its own, and it was defeated by the complex jungle and mountain environment in northern Vietnam.

However, there are only a few cases of wars facing completely unfamiliar environments and terrain, so if you want to really lure the enemy into the ambush, this is a technical job. In fact, ambush war is not unfamiliar to Zhao Bing. He defeated Liu Shen in the Battle of Qizhou, strictly speaking, it is also called an ambush war. Since then, there have been several battles such as the defense of Qiongzhou. It should be said that he is not unfamiliar with ambush wars, but he knows that this is still different from ambush wars on land.

At sea, Zhao Bing can use the island to hide soldiers, or use the curvature of the earth to hide outside the enemy's sight. In addition, there are wind directions, water flows and tides that can be used to quickly complete the encirclement and annihilation of the enemy. On land, he can only use terrain and land ambush, and he has lost the most important maneuver advantage at sea, but this is the most indispensable in encirclement and annihilation and pursuit operations.

The ambush area that Zhao Bing thought of in this battle was in Kunshan area, which was a plain formed by the silt and sand carried by the Yangtze River in the sea estuary. In addition, it was mostly saline-alkali land, which was not suitable for planting, and naturally was not suitable for cultivation. It has not been effectively developed so far. Therefore, although this area has evolved for thousands of years, it has not produced high mountains and ridges, nor has it grown large forests that can hide thousands of soldiers.

Zhao Bing also knew that once he launched the Northern Expedition to the Central Plains, he would face the Mongolian army that was more mobile than his side. In this case, he would need to set up an ambush in advance, cut off and encircle the enemy, so that he could achieve the effect of defeating and annihilation of the enemy's living forces. The Central Plains and Mongolia were mostly plains with flat terrain and uncovered plains, and of course, there were higher requirements for ambush wars.

The ambush tactics were also often practiced by the Song army, but in the battle to recover Jiangnan, all units relied on sharp firearms to rush and attack, and the tactics adopted were more interspersed with surprise attacks and roundabout encirclement. The use of ambush tactics was not good, so they lacked practical experience. Zhao Bing also wanted to gain practical experience through this battle, train troops, and lay the foundation for future operations.

Zhao Bing thought that since the success of the ambush was a test of the ability of the generals on both sides, the most important thing was how to make the enemy generals feel that they had a "big chance of winning" or "will win by breaking through". For example, in the Battle of Maling mentioned earlier, Sun Bin used the famous "stove reduction strategy" to continuously reduce the earth stove used by the Qi army, so that Pang Juan misjudged the status of the Qi army without doing a good job of reconnaissance.

There is another classic ambush case in later generations, which is the ambush by the Later Jin Dynasty on the Ming army led by Liu Jing in the Battle of Sarhu. Before the war, the Later Jin army sent soldiers to wear the armor of the Ming army that had been defeated before and hold the Ming army flag of Du Song's troops who had been defeated before, and tricked Liu Jing into leading the Ming army to accelerate forward. As a result, Liu Jing entered the ambush of the Later Jin army without any preparation.

So is the army that falls into an ambush really equivalent to being wiped out? In fact, it may not be possible. The biggest damage to the army in the early stage is actually a panic caused to the soldiers, which makes the army out of control. Therefore, when ambushed, how to keep more soldiers in a panic state is the most important step to aggravate the casualties of the enemy.

Since ambushing often occurs in areas with relatively narrow marching terrain, this matter must not allow the enemy to quickly move into combat formation from the marching state, which becomes the most critical thing to win or lose. This is why the demands of the elite in ancient times are often to be able to calm down and respond quickly to emergencies. Zhao Bing thought that it was not impossible for the ambush to achieve counterattack by the ambush to achieve these two points.

Of course, Zhao Bing also understood that putting the enemy into chaos was only a win-win fighter. At this time, he had to quickly intersperse and divide the ambushed enemy, because when the ambushed team was cut off by the enemy, it was the most dangerous. Because after the army was cut off, the encirclement and annihilation of one of the ambushed parties often began.

In the case of an ambush, it is actually the most test of the general's level. Faced with this situation, the ambushed commander often has to consider how to gather the soldiers at hand as soon as possible and then break through. However, Zhao Bing knew that when the situation was already established, he wanted to escape from the sky. In addition to the excellent command of the enemy general, he also had to have quite good luck...

"Your Majesty, my subordinates thought that it was not appropriate to evacuate all the people along the river estuary. This would be equivalent to telling the Mongol Yuan that we were prepared. Why would they still take the bait?" The generals discussed how to lure the enemy across the river, and the debate broke out. Most people thought that in order to avoid casualties, residents should be moved in before the war began, while Sun Kai put forward different opinions.

"What Sun Dutong said is reasonable. If we deliberately leak the empty sect, the enemy will inevitably have some suspicion, and instead think there is a fraud!" Zhao Mengjin thought about it.

"At present, other ferries in Jiangdong are close to Changzhou, Wuxi, Changshu and other places. They are densely populated places and are places with heavy taxes. If the Mongols cross the river from these places, the loss is too great. Only the Kunshan area is the most suitable as an ambush site, but if there is a flaw, all our preparations will be empty!" Han Zhen frowned and said.

"Sajia thinks it's okay. Since we have adopted the strategy of driving fish into the net, we have strengthened the defense of the river in Changzhou and other places. As Han Shumi said, it is a place where the court's taxes are important, so it is natural to strengthen the troops. With the concentration of troops here, the military forces in Kunshan will inevitably be weak, and there is nothing wrong with evacuating the people to prevent changes. Moreover, moving the people in the internal situation under frequent harassment of the enemy has always been a common measure, so the enemy will not be suspicious." At this time, Chen Fenglin stroked his beard and said.

"Well, what Mr. Chen said is reasonable. If we do not take countermeasures due to frequent harassment by the enemy, we will be more suspicious of overrepresentation. Now, not only should the people move in an organization, but the imperial horse farm should also be evacuated as soon as possible. This will also give the enemy the illusion of weak troops here. What does your Majesty think?" Zhao Mengjin looked at the emperor and said.

"I think it's reasonable, but Kunshan Yanjiang Fortress still needs to defend as strictly as before and cannot withdraw at the same time. But we must make good response plans. In short, we must do the tricks and do the real thing!" Zhao Bing nodded.

"This is a bit difficult. Please give your Majesty a brilliant plan. I am a rough man, so how can I act? Don't act like a big plan at that time!" Sun Kai said with a bitter face after hearing this.
Chapter completed!