Chapter 962 Psychology on the Battlefield
"How is this going?!"
Li Jue had just led the soldiers at the rear to completely cross the river, and was leading the soldiers forward when he met his men who were frightened and just wanted to escape, without any fighting spirit.
"Stop these idiots!"
Li Jue, who was extremely surprised, quickly ordered, but it was already too late. The Xiliang cavalry had already occupied the entire road while they were running away like crazy. The Xiliang cavalry from two different directions suddenly crowded into a huge knot, blocking the entire open space. It was so tight that only the Xiliang cavalry on both sides had some room.
Li Jue looked at these fleeing men, and he was so angry that the three corpse gods jumped up. Those who lost their weapons, their armors, and their helmets were no longer like an army at all, they were like a group of mountains. bandit.
Although Li Jue was a horse thief, he still looked down on bandits. He immediately ordered the generals and officers among them to be arrested for questioning, but he was asked a piece of news that even shocked him...
"Flying Bear Army?!"
"Are there still a lot of reinforcements?"
In order to get rid of the guilt of retreating, these generals basically competed with each other vividly to show that it was not that they were not trying their best, but that their opponents were too cunning and powerful, and they were guilty of not fighting...
"Nonsense... nonsense!" Li Jue was so angry that he drew his sword and shouted, "There are clearly more than 500 people in front of us, how can we get thousands of people, and Grand Master Dong's Flying Bear Army! Come on, come on! Will..."
Just when Li Jue said this, he suddenly raised his head and saw that the towering smoke and dust from behind had already rushed towards here like a yellow dragon with its teeth and claws. He was stunned for a moment!
"Flying Bear Army, here it comes, here it comes!"
"General, they are coming!"
The smoke did not come quickly, but its scope was extremely wide...
Li Jue felt a sudden cold wind blowing in his face, and his hands and feet suddenly felt a little cold. His head, which was originally a little heated, seemed to have calmed down a lot.
If the opponent hurriedly follows behind his defeated soldiers and covers them all the way, he is not very afraid, because he only needs to get rid of his defeated soldiers and make a diagonal countercharge to stop the pursuit, or even You can push back with a wave of counter-pressure.
People can run fast or slowly, and the same goes for war horses. Therefore, no matter what the army is, there is no way to maintain the formation perfectly in two situations, one is when chasing, and the other is when fleeing.
But what Li Jue fears most is to form an array and advance slowly like this!
In this way, if Li Jue leads his army to meet the enemy, he will not face a scattered vanguard force, but an entire military formation.
Progress slowly, not for speed, but for stability. The purpose is to keep the formation unchanged, and secondly to save horsepower so that it can fully explode again during the battle. Judging from the scope of the smoke, the left and right wings are slightly forward, which is to prepare to catch us all by the river. What it means!
With such a perfect formation in front of him, so many reinforcements obviously added, and his men returning from defeat so quickly, there seems to be a more reasonable explanation and answer.
And now...
A last stand?
Li Jue grabbed the soldier in front of him and bared his teeth and said: "Flying Bear Army? The Flying Bear Army is the personal followers of Grand Master Dong. How could it fall into the hands of this person?! You...this, the Flying Bear Army, what is its shape and details?" Come on!"
The soldiers swore to the sky and described Fei Qian's heavy armored cavalry, emphasizing again and again that they were exactly the same as Dong Taishi's Flying Bear Army. Therefore, it was not that they were incompetent, they indeed could not defeat them...
"The Flying Bear Army...is it really the Flying Bear Army?"
In Li Jue's impression, it seems that only the one in the early Han Dynasty who successfully fought against the odds was remembered. As for the others who also fought against the odds, they basically turned into bones with the water. Unless we are truly at the end of our rope, who would put themselves in danger and fight with their last legs?
Fortunately, he sent the front army to pursue him, and luckily discovered the opponent's ambush reinforcements. Therefore, this damn Fei Qian had to show all his troops and advance here!
No wonder this damn guy chose to cross the river here, no wonder he only sent two hundred people to fight back...
It seems that everything is connected perfectly, and all the doubts have answers. Of course, this is just Li Jue's personal guess, but to confirm whether this guess is correct, it is necessary to sacrifice a lot of life, maybe Fei Qian opposite Maybe it’s Li Jue’s own.
But why is there the Flying Bear Army? My own soldiers may be exaggerated, but if you haven't seen it with your own eyes, you will definitely not be able to describe it in such detail, so it is certain that Fei Qian has a heavy cavalry.
Could it be that Master Dong...
No, then someone from the Dong family took refuge with Fei Qian?
That's not right, so how did Fei Qian know about this method of heavy armor?
It's not impossible to fight, but it's not easy to deal with heavy cavalry. It turns out that Li Jue only knew that Fei Qian had five or six hundred cavalry, so he could win with his own force several times that of Fei Qian. But now he discovered that Bingzhou's cavalry was also a tough one, and there were more heavy cavalry. Regardless of how they got here Yes, if we have to fight head-on, I'm afraid my soldiers will have to deal with a lot here. In this case, one will decrease and the other will increase...
If there were no Ma Teng and Han Sui in Guanzhong now, Li Jue might have gritted his teeth and wasted a lot of money, but now he had to consider the possible problems that might arise if his soldiers were consumed too much...
Is it worth it?
Li Jue is a gambler and wants to make money, but in the current situation, it seems that if you want to bet, you have to bet all your wealth. If you lose, you will have nothing. Of course, you may win, but it is obvious that you will not win as you imagined before. So many, maybe it will be a miserable victory, or in other words, if Fei Qian wins here, he will still lose when facing Ma Teng and Han Sui.
Should he go all out and fight first, then even if he wins, then lose to Ma Teng and Han Sui, or should he stop temporarily and maintain a certain number of soldiers to ensure his future status and advantage?
"General?"
Li Jue's eyes flickered for a few times, and he slowly put the long sword into the scabbard. Although he was unwilling to accept it, he finally gritted his teeth and said: "...withdraw! The rear army becomes the front army, withdraw!"
After all, the habits developed over many years as horse thieves have gained the upper hand. Since the wind is tight, let’s just go ahead and take advantage of the opponent’s slow approach to maintain the formation. First, ensure your own safety. As for whether it is true or not, you can wait for subsequent verification. Today’s Risks and benefits are completely mismatched...
The big white banner that had been flying high was now rolled up diagonally on the shoulders of the flag-bearer. Li Jue, surrounded by dozens of bodyguards, retreated southward.
Almost subconsciously, Li Jue glanced back and seemed to see the tricolor flag looming in the distance, and he gritted his teeth...
From now on, in this Guanzhong land, those who travel across the country and fight for thousands of miles are not only Xiliang cavalry, but also Bingzhou guys, Feiqian Feiziyuan, you are so cruel!
At this time, Fei Qian didn't know that Li Jue had already classified him into the ranks of Bingzhou people. He just saw the smoke and dust raised by Li Jue as he walked away, and couldn't help but smile slightly and breathed a sigh of relief.
"Junhou! This!" Huang Xu behind him was a little dazed and couldn't help but said, "This...the Xiliang thief has really retreated?"
"Haha, then you still want to fight again?" Fei Qian said with a smile.
Huang Xu shook his head quickly, then hesitated for a moment, and then asked: "I just think why I didn't even send a scout to investigate, and just ran away..."
Although Zhao Yun on the side did not speak, he turned his gaze, obviously hoping that Fei Qian could explain something.
This is actually the use of anchoring...
If someone asks you to borrow five hundred, you may refuse him. At this time, he changes his mind and only borrows twenty. In this case, you will often agree to lend him the money, even if you know in your heart that the money will be wasted once loaned out.
This is anchoring. Of course, it also means that bare feet are not afraid of wearing shoes. Anyway, he advances slowly without losing much horsepower. If Li Jue really can't think about it and bumps into him, he will have no time to retreat.
It's just that this possibility is relatively small. Li Jue is also famous for being suspicious. It was normal to be angry when he was tricked by him before, but now...
It's like an ordinary person walking on the street and suddenly being slapped by someone for no reason. When he turned around and was about to argue with that reckless guy, he realized that the person who slapped him was a tattooed guy who was not easy to mess with. A green-skinned burly man, the anger that this ordinary person originally had was probably reduced by half or six points immediately.
Li Jue thought that he could easily deal with Fei Qian before, but found that he was wrong. Then he sent people to attack for the second time, but found that he still underestimated Fei Qian. So when Fei Qian now bluffs, Li Jue will inevitably have some thoughts in his heart. Some doubts, but also somewhat shaken to one's original judgment.
Once a person is shaken, he will think too much, and once he thinks too much, he will not have much courage to persevere. This is a relatively simple psychological game, but how to explain this clearly to Zhao Yun and Zhang Liao?
There was still no psychology in the Han Dynasty, right? Perhaps it has specific applications but does not form a theory.
"The commander-in-chief of the army has his own way of leading the army for a long time," Fei Qian thought for a moment and said slowly, "If he doesn't notice, he can bully him. This is true for Sun Tzu's reduction of the stove and Gaixia's embarrassment. Chi Yang Hou Yong is brave, but he is also suspicious. If he loses again and again, he loses his courage and only has his doubts. How can he not retreat?"
In fact, Jianzao and Chuge also have some anchoring factors.
Sun Bin withdrew his troops, and Pang Juan pursued him all the way. He probably thought that Sun Bin was vulnerable, so he judged from the number of soldiers that Sun Bin could no longer control the army, and many of them fled, so he chased him all night and was ambushed.
The same is true for Chu Ge.
Later generations often mentioned why the Overlord of Chu committed suicide, saying that he could make a comeback after crossing the river. This was just a God's perspective who knew the cause and effect. And for the Overlord of Chu, if there were so many Chu Ges in the Han army, did it mean that the people from Jiangdong He had already betrayed himself and taken refuge with Liu Bang, so what was the point of going back alone?
Zhao Yun nodded, looking slightly thoughtful.
Zhang Liao smiled on the side and said, "So, we all have our own ways?"
Fei Qian was not very shy about this, and said to Zhang Liao: "If you hide behind the Chinese military flag, you are hiding heavy armor and equipped with a powerful crossbow to lure you into the battle..."
Zhang Liao's smile gradually faded, he was silent for a while, then he cupped his hands towards Fei Qian and said, "Thank you for your advice, sir."
Fei Qian smiled, and also raised his hands to Zhang Liao and Zhao Yun Gong and said: "Soldiers are also crafty. Military and state affairs must be carefully observed. If there are rules to follow in a certain design and layout, I hope you two can give me more corrections."
"I will obey your order." Zhang Liao and Zhao Yun said together.
"Okay, push the cart over here, take off the vests and other things of the heavy riders, and feed them some more essence to let the horses regain their strength and prepare to return..." Fei Qian looked at the heavy riders. The personnel are There were some losses, but in fact the losses were more in horses. Fortunately, this counterattack also captured some Xiliang cavalry horses, otherwise it would be really painful.
In order to travel quickly, we can no longer bring large baggage trucks, but we do bring some simple small trailers. Although it requires horse-drawn horses to keep up with the pace, the advantage is that it is easy to disassemble, and the most important thing is that the horse armor still has Some camping supplies can be bundled on it, which can reduce the load of many war horses.
As for wheels, the Chinese people had already lit up the technology tree before the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. It is said that the first wheel was produced in the Xia Dynasty, and by the Yin and Shang Dynasties, relatively complete vehicles and carriages and other items had appeared. , and then in the Warring States Period, those countries with thousands of times, the national strength was calculated by the number of chariots armed with technologies such as bearings and wheels.
By the Han Dynasty, the technology of wheels was already quite mature. Basically, a decent craftsman could make it. Although there was no rubber or other things in later generations to absorb shock or reduce friction, at least it was not used for transporting items. Too many questions. Anyway, heavy items such as horse armor don’t need very comfortable wheels...
After defeating the pursuers, they could return. The soldiers were all happy. They began to take out some ingredients from their arms or pockets that they were reluctant to eat, feed them to their horses as snacks, and tidy up their horses. The atmosphere was much more relaxed.
There are also some war horses that captured the Xiliang soldiers, and they are still agitated when the reins are pulled. This is naturally the time when those delicious and sweet snacks come into play. It is fun to talk about it. The war horses seem to be a little arrogant. His personality, although he shakes his head and tail, snorts and scratches his hooves, still cannot change his body as a foodie...
Although people die for money and birds die for food, in fact the horses are not much better. When they realize that the new soldiers around them are strong and difficult to resist, and they also have some delicious food, they soon die. Then he became docile, either marching with the large army, or being hitched to the harness of a small car, and the group of people meandered towards the east...