In the eyes of military strategists, soldiers are not merely living, breathing human beings...
Mountains, rivers, weather, day and night, light... these are all soldiers!
If used properly, 30,000 men can exert the power of 300,000!
Jiang Ming, discerning the underlying tensions between the Zhi and Han families, deliberately sowed discord among them, making them distrust each other even more.
Although they didn't trust each other to begin with.
But doing this... can maximally undermine their sense of teamwork in combat!
Meanwhile, Changsun Hu kept conducting 'military exercises' in front of that narrow and cramped canyon, charging and returning, then charging again with drums and gongs... In reality, he wanted to mislead Zhi Yao into thinking that Jiang Ming knew he couldn't win in a head-on confrontation, so he deliberately made things difficult for him, hoping to get his soldiers to come out in full force to seize that narrow canyon passage, and then... lure his own army into the encirclement he had set up.
This brat did the same thing when dealing with the Xiongnu and Rouran!
Therefore, Zhiyao wasn't bothered or worried at all; he simply wanted to starve Jiang Ming's army to death...
Before the Zhi-Han allied forces arrived, Jiang Ming had already gained an in-depth understanding of the mountains, rivers, climate, and seasonal changes in the entire Changping region.
They even accurately predicted when it was about to rain and whether the river level was rising.
He had already secretly changed the enemy's camp into an encirclement.
Generally speaking, so-called annihilation battles were the most difficult to achieve in ancient times.
Only by maintaining a force several times larger than the enemy's can a complete annihilation be achieved...
Killing 10,000 enemies while losing 8,000 of your own is hardly a battle of annihilation!
Moreover, they often use ambush tactics, letting the enemy fall into their own trap.
In other words, annihilation battles never involve proactive attacks; they are always passive 'traps' set.
However, Jiang Ming completely broke through this way of thinking, changing the annihilation war to an active attack, and aiming to achieve annihilation by 'fighting the many with the few'.
Changsun Hu's 'military exercise' continued. It rained during the day, but Changsun Hu's 'luring' operation did not stop...
Although I was certain I wouldn't fall into their trap, the gongs and drums of the Yan army on the other side were truly annoying.
Unable to sleep at night due to the noise, Zhiyao in the tent simply covered his head with several layers of blankets...
Meanwhile, Jiang Ming's 140,000-strong army quietly circled around to the rear of the Zhi army's camp.
Jiang Ming himself was among these 140,000 troops.
The rain was getting heavier, and Jiang Ming was mentally calculating the amount of rainfall...
When he thought the time was right, he gave the order, and 140,000 Xiongnu and Xianbei soldiers charged toward Zhiyao's camp like hungry tigers pouncing on their prey!
In ancient warfare, the most feared thing for soldiers on the march was not being trapped in a dangerous place, but rather a riot breaking out, with stampedes occurring as they rushed to escape...
The truly deadly move is the 'night riot,' which is when someone suddenly screams at night, causing a disturbance!
Unlike modern times, ancient times did not have ample electric lighting, nor did they have the constant illumination of a brazier as depicted in TV dramas.
Even if they exist, they are only found in the tents of a very small number of generals.
Overall... tens of thousands, even hundreds of thousands of troops set up camp, and the scene was like a county town suddenly losing power, a complete darkness.
If there's a moon in the sky, that's a little better.
If it's a cloudy or rainy day, you really won't be able to see your hand in front of your face, and you'll be completely blind!
At this moment, if a soldier has a nightmare and suddenly screams in fright, it will immediately amplify the tension without limit, making everyone feel insecure!
The effect was similar to a sudden power outage during evening self-study, causing chaos in the entire classroom.
As soon as the power came back on, everyone immediately fell silent again...
The unknown is the most terrifying thing...
In complete darkness, one can see nothing but desperately hack and slash with the weapons at hand, indiscriminately attacking friend or foe, just to save one's own life.
This creates a vicious cycle...
Therefore, what ancient field armies feared most was a 'night raid'!
Even if an army of hundreds of thousands of men stuck their heads out and let the enemy cut them off one by one, it would take them a whole day and night to kill them all.
But if it were nighttime, those hundreds of thousands of people would vanish in an instant!
Therefore, in ancient times, anyone who dared to shout at night during a military campaign was guilty of the serious crime of being torn apart by chariots!
Of course, there are patrols and alarms in the camp.
When an enemy of ten thousand men arrives, the alarm is not relayed by shouting, but by sounding bugles so that everyone can take counter-military action in unison to respond to any unexpected event!
The problem is that the combined forces of Zhi and Han were completely distracted by Changsun Hu's 10,000 troops at the front... They were too preoccupied to notice the enemy troops coming from the rear!
At Jiang Ming's command, 140,000 Hu soldiers surged forward like a tidal wave...
They were all Hu people, and they could recognize each other immediately by their language and whistling!
Moreover, the direction of the attack is always forward, there's no mistake!
But Zhiyao's campsite was indistinguishable.
The Zhi family army was thrown into chaos. The soldiers hastily picked up their weapons and started hacking and slashing wildly!
Xianbei soldiers shouted loudly, "The Han family army has rebelled! The Han family army has rebelled..."
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