We found that in the costume plot, there are often two countries fighting for a city in front of the military front to fight for the dead and alive scene, siege warfare has become the most important battle in ancient times, then some people will ask, the country fights, why not bypass these heavily guarded cities, but directly take the rear of the enemy army?
In fact, there are many reasons, and there are many examples of ancient battlefields bypassing heavily guarded cities and pools to sneak into the rear, such as Zhuge Liang in the Three Kingdoms period once bypassed the heavily guarded Chen Cangcheng, went directly to the rear of the Wei State, and finally attacked and captured Chen Cang.
Han Xin also used his hands and feet in Chen Cang's place, and he secretly led the Han troops to secretly cross Chen Cang and defeat the vassals of the Western Chu Overlord in one fell swoop. But this practice is usually a sneak attack, and the manager uses very little, why is this?
When Zhuge Liang went out to attack Qishan, Wei Yan once offered a plan to send a team of men and horses to attack Chang'an through the Meridian Valley, but Zhuge Liang refused to accept it. "Thinking that this county is in danger, it is better to be safe from Tan Dao, you can take the right side of the long, and the perfect will be conquered without worry, so there is no need to delay the calculation."
In addition, the ancient city pool has a very important reason so that both sides can not ignore it, soldiers and horses did not move the grain and grass first, in ancient times military food is the top priority, if the army bypassed the city pool to attack other places, then how can his grain and grass be guaranteed?
As long as the defenders in the city wait for the vanguard of the conquest to pass, they will go out of the city to crush the convoy that then transported grain and grass, so that the vanguard troops who have lost grain and grass will inevitably be disturbed, and as long as they cooperate with the army that comes to support them to attack back and forth, the enemy army will be easily defeated.
We must understand what the meaning of war is, nothing more than to plunder more interests, the ancient princes of war, more is not to destroy each other, but to seize more territory and resources. Increase your strength.
Therefore, these cities and pools are particularly favored by people, they are a bridgehead to resist foreign enemies, but also an important gathering place for human resources, usually the princes do not have an absolute advantage in the army, do not dare to take a dangerous chess, fight steadily, and pull out the enemy's cities step by step.
During the war, both countries will be fully prepared for war, and resources outside the city, such as gold and silver and grain and grass harvested from rural fields, will be forced by the local government to enter the city. Similarly, the people of various village markets would also take refuge in the city.
The purpose of this was, first, to prevent the people from being persecuted by the enemy, but also to prepare for a protracted war, to stockpile more material and to minimize the money and food outside the city for the invaders to plunder. This means that there is a lot of money in the city. That's what the invaders are running for.
In 1812, russia and France broke out of the war, the French Emperor Napoleon I with a fierce force of 600,000 troops into Russia, but the Russian officer Barclay is an old slippery head, he avoided its sharp edge, took the initiative to lead the troops to withdraw from Russia, the French army ran a long distance, facing the empty city with strong walls and clear fields, the reserve material could not keep up, and could only retreat helplessly.
Therefore, experts who study history for ancient warfare, saying that those who bypass the city will basically die, although this is exaggerated, but it is not difficult to see that the ancient times with backward transportation are not suitable for long-distance raiding operations, and strange tricks and dangerous moves can occasionally be thought about, but more often only a spit and a nail can be won.