Although Huo Qubing and his men have come out, there are intelligence stations of the Tang Dynasty in various places. As long as we go there, we can know most of the recent events. Of course, it is impossible to know too many details. The main reason is that we are afraid that the intelligence station will be taken over by others. If that happens, then we will have no secrets.
"The raids are quite active, roughly maintaining at 2-3 times a day, but the number of people has dropped significantly. At the beginning, there were even 2,000 to 3,000 people, but now there are only 500 to 600. Their combat effectiveness has also dropped significantly. Because this is provided by the intelligence station, there is no more detailed information."
Each of his subordinates carries several pieces of intelligence with them, but they have to destroy it immediately after speaking. The others will be kept close to them, and if anything happens, they will have to be destroyed immediately.
"That's right. Look at how miserable they are. I guess they didn't plan the old forest well at the beginning and just wanted to attack us from inside. If they didn't have outside support, I think they would probably die in there. This old forest is definitely not as simple as they think."
Huo Qubing said this very confidently, and several young generals beside him also picked up their telescopes. They could see clearly through the telescopes that many people were now as thin as sticks, and they looked like mummies. It was obvious that they had not received any supplements for a long time.
"Even if these people recover, I don't think their fighting capacity will be restored. However, after they establish this transportation channel, I'm afraid that resources will be continuously shipped in, which will also have a significant impact on us."
The people present said with some concern that the situation in the rear had been improving, but because the old forest really could not support so many people, their situation was getting worse. But if the King of Vietnam continued to support the old forest, then the lives of these people would get better. Doesn't it mean that our transport team in the rear will face a larger-scale war?
"I don't think we should change our battle plan immediately. We won't launch surprise attacks on them. We'll just stay around the royal city and attack their transport convoys. Since they can attack ours, we can attack theirs too. Besides, losing a transport convoy would be much more painful for them than losing one for us."
After Huo Qubing finished speaking, the eyes of those present immediately lit up. In addition to land transportation routes, we also have sea transportation routes. Even if all the transportation materials are burned by them, we can still get enough supplies from the sea.
But the Vietnamese army in the old forest is different. Apart from this transportation route, they have no other way to obtain supplies. As long as we stay in the Vietnamese royal city and other major transportation routes and find out that their transport team has set off, we will directly destroy this batch of supplies. They will not be able to survive in the mountains.
However, through this reconnaissance, Huo Qubing also saw another side, that is, the Vietnamese army possessed extremely strong tenacity.
Now these people are basically at the end of their rope, but they have not forgotten their mission at all. They could return to their hometown by retreating south, but they did not choose this path. Instead, they followed Wu Yuanhao and continued to attack the Tang army on the mountain. Many of them were so thin that it would be impossible for them to be like normal people after recovering, but they still did not retreat.
His Royal Highness the Crown Prince said it that year, the army here is not like those in other places, their combat effectiveness is still very strong, you should not think of taking advantage of them, you can only defeat them hard on the battlefield, and you have to knock out all the energy and spirit of these people, otherwise even if we rule this area in the future, we will not be able to hold it for too long, and in the end it is very likely that they will take it back.
When Li Xiang said this, many people did not agree at all. They thought that Li Xiang overestimated the Vietnamese, including Huo Qubing. But now Huo Qubing wanted to change his mind. What Li Xiang said was true. Such an army would make them suffer greater losses and defeat the faith in their hearts.
Huo Qubing's battle plan reached the intelligence station at an extremely fast speed, and then reached Chang Sun Ze's hands at an extremely fast speed.
After much deliberation, Chang Sun Ze believed that Huo Qubing's battle plan was the most reliable at present. Although we have naval warships, the current situation has also changed. The coastal cities are not our targets. These people in the mountains and forests are our targets. If we fail to deal with these people, then if we continue to move south, it means that these people in the mountains and forests will cause us greater harm.
So Chang Sun Ze immediately selected 1,500 men from his army and joined Huo Qubing's 3,000 men to continue the fight in the rear of Vietnam.
Of course, these people were sent there in small groups. Fortunately, there are many Han people in Vietnam. If there were not so many, we really would have no way to hide these people. Although the Vietnamese court has begun to discuss whether to gather all these Han people together, there will always be loopholes.
Wu Yuanhao finally got the first batch of supplies he had been longing for, but this first batch of supplies was so little that not even everyone could have a full meal.
When he heard that someone from the Tang Dynasty had pretended to be him and went to the royal city, this guy was so angry that he screamed. He never expected that the people from the Tang Dynasty had such conspiracies and tricks. In their impression, they always thought that the Tang Dynasty’s army only knew how to fight head-on and would not play these conspiracies and tricks. Now it seems that they really overestimated them.
In fact, this is a very normal thing. When the Han people were reading The Art of War, you guys didn’t even have normal writing. How could you go against them?
Wu Yuanhao persuaded the imperial envoys with kind words, telling them to send a large amount of supplies to them after they returned, and to send back those who could no longer hold on. It would be even better if they could also send them a group of fresh troops, so that they could better attack the Tang army...
