Three Kingdoms

  Chapter 961 Psychology on the battlefield

"How is this going?!"

  Li Jue had just led the soldiers at the rear to cross the river completely, and was leading the follow-up soldiers forward, but he bumped into his own men who were frightened and just wanted to escape without any fighting spirit.

   "Stop the motherfuckers!"

Surprised, Li Jue quickly gave the order, but it was already too late. The Xiliang cavalry had already occupied the entire road while fleeing wildly, and the two Xiliang cavalry from different directions immediately congested into a huge lump, blocking the entire open space. Strictly, only the Xiliang cavalry on both sides still have a little space.

Li Jue looked at these fleeing subordinates, and suddenly the three corpses jumped out of anger. Those who lost their weapons, armor, and helmets were no longer like an army at all, but like a group of mountains. bandit.

  Although Li Jue was born as a horse thief, he still looked down on bandits, and immediately ordered the generals and officers among them to be arrested for questioning, but he asked a piece of news that shocked even himself...

   "Flying Bear Army?!"

   "There are still a large number of reinforcements?"

  In order to get rid of the guilt of retreating, these generals and schools basically spoke vividly one by one to show that they did not try their best, but that the opponent was too cunning and powerful, and it was not a crime of not fighting...

   "Nonsense... nonsense!" Li Jue was furious, drew his sword and shouted, "There are only five hundred people ahead, how can there be thousands of people, and Grand Master Dong's flying bear army! Come, come! Will..."

  Li Jue just said this, when he suddenly raised his head, he found that the towering smoke and dust behind him had already rushed towards here like a yellow dragon, and he was stunned!

   "Flying Bear Army, come, come!"

   "General, they are coming!"

  The smoke doesn't come quickly, but the range is extremely wide...

  Li Jue felt a sudden gust of cold wind blowing in front of him, his hands and feet felt a little cold, and his originally hot head seemed to have calmed down a lot.

If the opponent hastily followed his defeated soldiers and came all the way to hide and kill them, he would not be very afraid, because he only needed to get out of the way of his own defeated soldiers and countercharge diagonally to stop the pursuit, and even It can be counter-pressed.

  People run at different speeds, and so do 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 is most afraid of is to form an array and slowly advance like this!

  In this way, if Li Jue led his army to meet the enemy, he would not be facing a scattered vanguard, but an entire army formation.

  Advance slowly, not seeking speed, seeking is a word of stability. The purpose is to keep the formation unchanged, and the second is to save horsepower so that it can completely explode again during the battle. Judging from the range of smoke and dust, the left and right wings protrude slightly. This is to prepare to catch me all by the river. mean!

  With such a perfect formation in front of him, so many reinforcements obviously added, and his subordinates returning from such a defeat so quickly, there seems to be a more reasonable explanation and answer.

   And now...

   Last Stand?

Li Jue grabbed the **** in front of him, bared his teeth, and said, "Fei Xiong Army? The Fei Xiong Army is personally accompanied by Grand Master Dong, how could it fall into the hands of this man?! Ru... this, Fei Xiong Army, what is its shape? Let me explain in detail Come!"

  The soldiers swore to the sky, described Fei Qian's heavy armored cavalry, and repeatedly emphasized that they were exactly the same as Dong Taishi's Feixiong Army, so it was not that they were weak, but they were indeed unable to fight...

   "Flying Bear Army...is it really Feixiong Army?"

  In Li Jue's impression, it seems that only the one in the early Han Dynasty who fought his back was successful and was remembered. Isn't it really the point where the mountains and rivers are at the end of the mountain, who will fall into danger by themselves and fight with their backs?

  Fortunately, I sent the former army to pursue it, and I was lucky enough to find the opponent's ambush reinforcements, so this **** Fei Qian had to show all his troops and advance here!

   No wonder this **** guy chose to cross the river here, no wonder only two hundred people were sent to fight back...

It seems that everything is perfectly connected together, and all doubts have been answered. Of course, this is just Li Jue's personal guess, but to prove whether this guess is correct, you need to sacrifice a lot of life, maybe Fei Qian on the other side It may be Li Jue's own.

   But why are there flying bears? My own soldiers may be exaggerated, but if I haven't seen them with my own eyes, I can't describe them in detail. Therefore, it can be confirmed that Fei Qian has a heavy cavalry.

   Could it be that Master Dong...

   No, then the people from the Dong family took refuge in this Feiqian?

   Not right, so how did Fei Qian know about the method of re-armoring?

   It is not impossible to fight, but it is not an easy task to deal with heavy cavalry. It turned out that Li Jue only knew that Fei Qian had five or six hundred cavalry, so his own force was several times that of Fei Qian, so he could naturally win, but now he found that the cavalry in Bingzhou was also a tough one, and there were more heavy cavalry, no matter how it came Yes, if you want to fight head-on, I am afraid that your soldiers will have to confess a lot here, so that one will ebb and flow...

  If there is no Ma Teng and Han Sui in Guanzhong now, Li Jue might be exhausted as soon as he gritted his teeth, but now he has to think about possible problems if his pawns are 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 family. If you lose, you have nothing. Of course, you may win, but it is obvious that you will not win as you imagined before. With so many, it might be a miserable victory, or it can be said that Fei Qian won here, and then faced with Ma Teng and Han Sui, it was still a loss.

  Should we go all out, do one battle first, and then even if we win, we will lose to Ma Teng and Han Sui, or should we stop for the time being and maintain a certain number of soldiers to ensure our future status and advantages?

   "General?"

  Li Jue's eyes flickered a few times, and he slowly put the long sword back into the scabbard. Although he was unwilling, he finally gritted his teeth and said: "... Withdraw! The rear army becomes the front army, withdraw!"

After all, the habits developed over the years in the life of horse thieves prevailed. Since the wind is tight, let’s talk about it. While the opponent is coming slowly to maintain the formation, first ensure the safety of your own family. As for whether it is true or not, you can wait for follow-up verification. Today’s The risks and benefits are completely mismatched...

  The white banner that had been standing high and fluttering was now rolled up obliquely and placed on the shoulders of the soldiers in charge of the banner. Li Jue, surrounded by dozens of guards, retreated to the south.

   Almost subconsciously, Li Jue looked back, and seemed to see the tricolor flag looming in the distance, and gritted his teeth hard...

  From now on, in this place in the middle of the pass, it is not only the Xiliang cavalry who have traveled across thousands of miles, but also the Bingzhou gangsters, Fei Qian and Fei Ziyuan, you are ruthless!

  At this time, Fei Qian didn't know that Li Jue had included him in the ranks of the Bingzhou guys. He just saw the smoke and dust raised by Li Jue, and couldn't help but smiled slightly and breathed a sigh of relief.

   "Jun Hou! This!" Huang Xu behind him was a little dazed, and couldn't help but said, "This... this Xiliang thief really retreated?"

   "Hehe, do you still want to fight again?" Fei Qian said with a smile.

  Huang Xu shook his head quickly, then hesitated for a moment, and asked, "I just think why I didn't even send a scout to investigate, and just ran away like this..."

  Although Zhao Yun on the side did not speak, he also turned his gaze, obviously hoping that Fei Qian could explain something.

  This is actually using anchoring...

   Someone asks you to borrow 500, maybe you will refuse him, but at this time he changes his words and only borrows 20. In this case, he will often agree to lend him the money, even if he knows in his heart that once the money is borrowed, it will be in vain.

   This is anchoring. Of course, it also means that you are not afraid of wearing shoes with bare feet. Anyway, you are advancing slowly, and you don’t lose much horsepower.

   It’s just that the possibility of this is relatively small. Li Jue is also famous for being suspicious. It’s normal to be angry when I was taken aback by myself before, but now...

It's like an ordinary person walking down the street suddenly being startled by someone slapping him for no reason. He turned his head in an inexplicable annoyance and was about to argue with that reckless guy, only to realize that the one who slapped him was a tattoo. The green-skinned brawny man, the rising anger of this ordinary person may have been cut off by five or six points immediately.

Li Jue thought that he could easily deal with Fei Qian, but found that he was wrong, and then sent someone to attack the second time, but found that he still underestimated Fei Qian. Some doubts, but somewhat shaken by my original judgment.

  Once a person is shaken, he will think too much. Once he thinks too much, he will not have much courage to persist. This is a relatively simple psychological game, but how to explain this clearly to Zhao Yun and Zhang Liao?

   There was no psychology in the Han Dynasty, right? Perhaps there are specific applications, but no theory is formed.

"The commander-in-chief of the army has his own way to lead the army for a long time," Fei Qian said slowly, "if he doesn't notice, he can be deceived. The same is true for the grandson who reduces the stove and the song of embarrassment. Chi Yang Hou Yong is courageous, but he is also suspicious, and if he loses again and again, he loses his courage and only has doubts, how can he not retreat?"

  In fact, there are some anchoring factors in reducing the stove and Chu Ge.

  Sun Bin withdrew his army, and Pang Juan pursued him all the way. He probably thought that Sun Bin was already vulnerable, so he judged from the number of stoves that Sun Bin could no longer control the army, and most of them fled.

  The same is true for Chu Ge.

Later generations will often mention why the overlord of Chu committed suicide, saying that after crossing the river, he can make a comeback. He has already betrayed himself and joined Liu Bang, so what's the point of going back alone?

  Zhao Yun nodded, looking thoughtful.

  Zhang Liao smiled at the side, and said: "So, we all have our own way?"

  Fei Qian didn't shy away from this point, and said to Zhang Liao, "If someone hides heavy armor behind the Zhongjun flag, equips a strong crossbow, and lures you into the battle..."

  Zhang Liao's smile gradually disappeared, and after a moment of silence, he cupped his hands towards Fei Qian and said, "Thank you, Junhou, for your suggestion."

   Feiqian smiled, and also cupped his hands to Zhang Liao and Zhao Yungong and said: "Soldiers are deceitful. Military and state affairs must be investigated. If there are rules to follow in a certain design layout, I hope you can correct me more."

   "I would like to obey the order of the emperor." Zhang Liao and Zhao Yun clasped their hands together.

"Okay, push the trolley over here, take off the vests of the heavy riders, and then feed some fine material, let the horses recover their strength, and prepare to return..." Fei Qian looked at the heavy riders. They lost some, but in fact the most losses were war horses. Fortunately, this time the counterattack also captured some Xiliang cavalry horses, otherwise it would be really painful.

In order to travel quickly, there is no way to bring a large baggage cart, but a small simple trailer is brought. Although it needs a horse to keep up with the pace, it is better than disassembly. The most important thing is that the horse armor is still there. Some camping materials can be tied to it, which can reduce the load of many war horses.

As for the wheel, the Chinese people had lit up the technology tree as early as the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. It is said that the first wheel was produced in the Xia Dynasty. By the Yin and Shang Dynasties, there had been relatively complete items such as car bodies and carriages. , Then in the Warring States period, those countries with thousands of rides and ten thousand rides calculated their national power by the number of chariots armed with technologies such as bearings and wheels.

By the Han Dynasty, the technology of the wheel was quite mature, and basically a decent craftsman could do it. Although there was no such thing as rubber in later generations to absorb shock or reduce friction, at least it was used to transport items. Too many problems, anyway, some heavy items such as horse armor don't need any more comfortable wheels...

After defeating the chasing soldiers, they could return, and the soldiers were all happy. They started to take out some fine ingredients that they were reluctant to eat from their arms or cloth pockets, and fed them to their horses as snacks, and tidied up the horses. The saddle or something, the atmosphere is also a lot more relaxed.

There are also some war horses that captured the Xiliang soldiers who were a little bit unfamiliar, and they were still restless when they were pulled by the reins. Naturally, it was time for those delicious and sweet snacks to play their role. It was fun to say, and the war horses seemed a little arrogant Even though he shakes his head and wags his tail, sniffs his nose and scratches his hooves, it still can't change his physique of a foodie...

Although it is said that people die for money and birds die for food, in fact the horses are not much better. When they realize that these new soldiers around them are strong and hard to resist, and they still have some delicious food, they will soon die. Just become docile, or march with the large army, or be put on the hood of a small cart, and a group of people will meander towards the east...

  (end of this chapter)