Chapter 3512 Similar and similar
Although you can go from Jingzhou to Fangling, you can go to Pengshui, it is actually not easy to go, especially if you have to go upstream, which is even more difficult.
So Cao Zhen did not dare to delay. After receiving the news, he immediately brought his soldiers to cross the mountains and rivers. The subsequent food and supplies were transported along Pengshui and followed by ships.
Along the way, Cao Zhen was very worried, afraid that when he came to Fangling through all his hardships, he saw a three-color flag hanging from the top of Fangling city...
On the map, Fang Ling is just a small dot, but if you really have to use your legs to rush on the road, it would be a life-threatening one.
Cao Ren and Cao Zhen dare not send other ordinary troops here. After all, Fangling is indeed very important and must be adjusted according to actual conditions.
If the Cavalry Army desperately attacked Fangling, it would be necessary to attack on both sides, then Cao Zhen would need to hold back Li Dianjun's footsteps and buy time for Cao Ren's northern line to resist Wuguan line.
If Li Dian just shot Fangling, then Cao Zhen must also detect it as soon as possible, and then either attack Li Dian's flanks or turn around to support him.
Anyway, the situation is changing, and new situations may occur at any time. If it is just a general general, it is possible to pass information up and down, and then lose the initiative in the process of waiting, especially on the mountain road from Fangling to Jingzhou, which is simply deadly...
Cao Zhen issued a death order, and everyone ran forward regardless of the soldiers who were behind.
So, although Cao Zhen stole a lot of time, there were not many soldiers who arrived in Fangling.
When I stood on the top of the mountain and saw that the flag in Fangling was still the logo of Cao Jun, Cao Zhen really let out a long breath, "God mercy on me!"
『General, are we... entering the city now?
The soldiers under his command asked.
Cao Zhen shook his head, "We won't go into the city! It's here! Find some high places on the hills and hang all the flags we brought!"
No one expected that the Shen family of Shangyong would be so unreliable!
After a month or two, Cao Zhen felt that Shen's family would not be a waste!
Shangyong City, Cao Zhen has been to, is larger, taller and more solid than Fangling City. Moreover, it has been operated by the Shen family for many years. There is also a Shen family's fortress as a horn around it to jointly protect the Shangyong area. How could it be easily compromised?
Did you say that you used gunpowder again?
Eighty percent!
Damn it!
The General of the Cavalry deserves to die!
No morals!
Gunpowder will cause a disaster sooner or later!
But why didn’t Zhongtiao Mountain blow up the cavalry to death?
Cao Zhen gritted his teeth and looked at Fangling City in the basin at the foot of the mountain.
Nowadays, such a small city has become the key point of the competition between the Cao army and the Cavalry Army, making Cao Ren and Cao Zhen very passive...
Fangling in history was once very famous.
This is the place where Meng Da became famous, and of course it was also where he died.
Many people think that Meng Da is incompetent, but in fact Meng Da is also very awesome, but when he attacked Fangling, he did not walk away from sweat or from Hanzhong, but went north from Zigui and passed through the Shennongjia area, which caught Fangling's guard off guard at that time. He never expected Meng Da to appear from the south!
The difficulty of this route is not much smaller than walking on Ziwu Valley.
After Meng Da captured Fangling, Liu Feng captured Shangyong, and it was not entirely conquered, but negotiated conditions for surrender with the Shen family at that time.
At that time, Liu Bei not only defeated Cao Cao in Hanzhong, but also seized the Shangyong area, but Guan Yu was also eyeing Nanyang, which was shocking the world and was in a state of sacrificing momentum, but the curse of prosperity and decline came to Liu Bei's head. At that time, Liu Bei was proud. Not only did he build pavilions and pavilions in Sichuan and Sichuan without a stable foothold in Hanzhong, he was consuming money and food, and even turned a blind eye to the large number of people migrating to Hanzhong by Cao Wei. He directly launched a follow-up attack plan and ordered Guan Yu to attack Fancheng, Xiangyang, in an attempt to march into the Central Plains in one breath.
Of course, Liu Bei's order to Guan Laoer was naturally to ask Guan Yu to find an opportunity, and did not ask Guan Laoer to take action immediately. However, at this time, Liu Bei probably forgot what his second child looked like. With Guan Yu's personality, he saw the veteran Huang Zhong so cool, and then Guan Yu himself was "doing nothing" in Jingzhou, so how could he bear it? So Guan Yu threw away Liu Bei's instructions when he entered Sichuan, forgot Liu Bei's words of earnestness to let Guan Yu defend the way back, and began to rise up and attack Xiangfan.
Then, there is nothing.
So now Li Dian has occupied Shangyong and pointed directly at Fangling. Has he really accumulated enough power in Hanzhong to pounce on Jingzhou in one breath, or is it just a side army that he pulled Jingzhou's defense line? The main force of the Cavalry Army is actually in Wancheng, Wuguan?
No one knows.
So Cao Zhen must see it in person.
"Where is the flag?! Why are it just like that?! Go and get more! Hang it up and spread it wider!"
Cao Zhen yelled, letting his subordinates spread flags over the mountains and forests.
At a distance, the characters on the flag are actually not very clear, and there are also trees and branches between the mountains and forests to cover them, but the color can be generally seen.
Especially the character Cao, from a distance, it looks like a black ball with a hat on it, while the character Fei is forked with two legs, so even if you can't see the specific gesture clearly, the characteristics of the upper and lower parts are still very obvious. In addition, there are still many differences between the three-color flag and the red and black Han flag.
As for what you can see clearly what row of big words written on a certain flag from a few miles away, then the little soldiers and scouts can be regarded as a clairvoy...
Cao Zhen doesn't need to see clearly from a distance, it's better not to see clearly.
He just needs the other party to see the flag.
Not only were the scouts of the cavalry, but also the Di generals in the Fangling.
Cao Zhen was not worried that the Cavalry Scout came up to the mountain to investigate, because the terrain here was only a few miles away, but it was not possible to walk for a day when he really walked. In addition, there was a Fangling City in the middle. Even if the Cavalry Scout had the courage to come over, he would be discovered by Cao's army when he arrived in front of the mountain.
With the advantage of being condescending, and as his troops arrived one after another, Cao Zhen gradually became more confident.
After all, Li Dian's large army has not arrived yet, but Cao Zhen doesn't take these cavalry teams seriously.
"General, we are stationed here?" My confidant asked Cao Zhen, "I'm sure I'm not going to Fangling City?"
In the wild mountains and forests, it is definitely not comfortable in the city.
Especially in winter.
"It's here!" Cao Zhen turned his head and went down the top of the mountain.
The wind at the top of the mountain made him a little cold.
"Go to find a shelter and cut down more wood to protect the cold..." Cao Zhen instructed, "There are also the soldiers who come in the future, and people should also be arranged... Let's watch at the mouth of the river, and the baggage ships will be transported here as soon as possible..."
The subordinate responded and went to do it in a hurry.
Fangling City is generally built in the Fangling Basin, with mountains around it and a Nanhe River in the middle, or Pengshui, which passes through the Fangling Basin and connects everything around it.
The current situation is almost the same as the Cavalry team appeared on the hill to the west, while Cao Zhen and others stayed in the east, and Fangling was in the middle.
『We just want Fang Ling to know that we are coming, that's fine...』 Cao Zhen found a place to shelter from the wind and sit down, 『Enter the city? Then there's no need... Those Di people will... Humph... They want something, so they send it over first...』
Cao Zhen did not intend to fight the cavalry army to the death in Fangling, because although there is the Nanhe River in Fangling, it is not a place where the Jingzhou naval army is deliberately used. On the contrary, the Danjiangkou, located at the intersection of the Danshui and the Han River, can give the Jingzhou naval army a broad stage.
Moreover, the Han River Dan Water is also the core point of defending against this cavalry army that Cao Ren and Cao Zhen set.
It just takes a certain amount of time to deploy the navy army to the Danjiangkou. At the same time, it also takes time to arrange traps and strengthen fortifications in Fangling's south river. Therefore, Cao's army needs time and cannot allow Fangling to surrender to the Cavalry Army so quickly.
That's right, Cao Zhen and Cao Ren both expected that Fang Ling would surrender in the end, so if Cao Zhen entered the city, he would be used by the Di people as a bargaining chip to flatter the cavalry.
Cao Zhen arranged doubters here to make Li Dian feel that beating Fangling is not worthwhile, and then went north to fight Yunguan and meet with Pang Shanmin and others.
Although Li Dian, Pang Shanmin, and the Cavalry Army of Wuguandao, will increase their strength after the convergence of Li Dian, it is a good thing for Jing Xiang, because the Cao army only needs to defend one direction. At that time, the Cao army can use the naval army to attack. Even if it cannot be stopped, they can use the naval army to retreat to Xiangyang and continue to resist.
Moreover, letting the Cavalry Army attack along the Danshui and Hanshui River has an additional benefit for the Cao Army...
But these are plans. Although they are plans that are possible, plans are always plans. Whether they can be realized in the end depends on the person who executes the plan.
After all, there are only more than a thousand soldiers defending here in Fangling, and the Di generals are unreliable. If the Di generals are unhappy, or are too happy and sell Fangling for some small money and small power, then Cao's army will be in real trouble.
Fighting on both sides and collapse on either side is equivalent to a collapse of the whole situation.
When Cao Zhen thought of this, he felt a little uneasy. With all the thoughts, it seemed that any possibility would make Cao's army doomed.
When attacking Hanzhong before, although Cao Zhen was blocked from the attack, he didn't feel so scared. But as Cao Zhen thought about it, his hands couldn't help but tremble, and even needed to hold the branch beside him to maintain stability.
Seeing Cao Zhen’s face turned pale for some reason, my confidant became nervous, "General?"
『Ah... It's okay...』 Cao Zhen was shocked, came to his senses and said, "I was thinking... Hanzhong to Shangyong, and then Shangyong to Wancheng, which side is farther away...』
He was unquestioned and thought for a while and replied, "It seems that it is almost the same... From Hanzhong to Xicheng, you can walk on the Han River, but from Xicheng to Shangyong, you have to walk on the mountain road... And from Wancheng to Yunguan, it is a mountain road, and you can walk along the Han River to Xicheng..."
Cao Zhen nodded, and then subconsciously repeated, "It's true... Yunguan... Danjiangkou...
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The scout of the Cavalry Army discovered the traces of Cao Zhen and others and passed them to Shangyong in a relay manner.
In the mountainous areas, if you really use two legs or four legs to run, even if you run for three days and three nights, you may not be able to run from Fangling to Shangyong, but the light can transmit the information back to Shangyong in a short time.
However, this transmission method can carry less information.
So now Li Dian just knew that Cao's army appeared in Fangling, and there were a lot of them, but for some other situations, it would take three or four days before a scout retreated from the front line and reported in detail.
"Cao Jun appeared in Fangling..." Li Dian looked at the map, "The speed is so fast... This is a bit troublesome..."
Li Dian went from Hanzhong to Xicheng, walked the Han River, went downstream, bypassed the Xicheng, and rushed straight to Shangyong. Although there were some risks, Li Dian learned about the current situation of Shangyong's Shen family by collecting information, so he successfully attacked Shangyong and killed Shen's family.
Xicheng was relatively rich before and had a large population, but in the previous battle, it was almost nine out of ten families killed and injured by the Cao army and the Shen family. Even after the Cao army withdrew, a large number of survivors fled Xicheng.
Xicheng is now an empty city. A few defenders are also a monk in Xicheng and they can't go out of the city to check their jobs, so Li Dian didn't spend much effort and just slipped over under the eyes of the defenders in Xicheng.
But Shangyong is different. Even if Li Dian successfully attacked Shen Dan, it does not mean that he could be like in the game. In an instant, not only the city, but also the surrounding land of the city changed the color, and then the number of resources can be increased for the occupying party from the next second...
After occupying Shangyong, he not only wanted to clear the surrounding areas of Shangyong, such as Zhushan area, but also stabilized the grain transport channel from Hanzhong to Xicheng and then to Shangyong.
At the same time, we must also consider the next step of advancement plan.
Li Dian received an order from Guanzhong, asking him to find an opportunity to march into Jingzhou.
This order is almost the same as the orders Guan Yu received in history. They are all "seeking opportunities" and there is no forced time. However, Li Dian thinks that attacking Shangyong at this time is the best, and it is beyond the expectations of Shen and others. If you wait for the spring of the next year or in the summer, it will not only cause heavy miasma on the mountain road, but also may also give Shen time to recover.
Facts have proved that Li Dian's decision was correct.
But he defeated Shangyong and only succeeded halfway.
This is true whether it is from the perspective of the battle or from the distance.
From Nanzheng to Xicheng, and then to Shangyong, it is a thousand miles away.
From Shangyong to Wancheng, it was almost a thousand miles away.
It is not difficult to go downstream to Xicheng, but if you want to go through Xicheng to Shangyong, it will be difficult to leave.
The Shangyong area is a typical area that is easy to defend and difficult to attack, surrounded by mountains and rivers in the middle.
If you don’t take the waterway and have to walk the mountain road, it will be difficult and time-consuming to surround the mountain.
Even Li Dian himself felt tired after defeating Shangyong and needed to adjust and rest. So Li Dian sent a large number of scouts, scattered around Shangyong, extending to Fangling area as tentacles, collecting information and warning in advance.
He is also a suspicious soldier.
After all, Li Dian was only stationed in Hanzhong, and the number of soldiers under his command was not as large as those who were defeated. In addition, there were still some attention nodes left to preserve the food road, so Li Dian can now be used as the main force to attack Fangling, which is only two or three thousand.
Large-scale military operations are thousands of miles apart. If you want to coordinate with each other, it is a difficult problem no matter when.
Now Li Dian is also facing a difficult choice. Should he continue to go to Fangling, attack the flanks of Jingxiang, or go around the northward line to the Han River, open up Yunguan, and meet with Pang Shanmin, Liao Hua and others?
Both routes are obviously good or bad.
Li Dian thought for a long time and decided to wait for the latest information to grasp the detailed situation before making a decision...
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In Fangling City, there was joy.
When the Di generals guarding the city saw Cao Zhen's flag and received the message that Cao Zhen arrived with his soldiers, he felt a little confident. He ordered the whole city to inform the reinforcements. Moreover, in order to enhance persuasion and gather morale, he even boasted that he had made an agreement with Cao Zhen long ago that the elite Cao army came!
When the Fangling defenders saw more and more flags appearing on the mountain, although they could not see how many soldiers were in the mountain, according to a flag of fifty people, they could still have a size of two or three thousand people, and they immediately felt relieved.
Especially when the Di general saw that when the flags of Cao's army appeared, the cavalry teams gradually disappeared in the mountains and forests and no longer approached Fangling, he believed that he had waited and had no choice to surrender immediately, which was correct.
Cao Zhen is somewhat a general in Jingxiang. If Cao Zhen came to rescue himself, he would definitely lead the elite main force of Cao's army.
At the same time, if Cao's army really comes, it also shows the importance of his place. No matter which party he is talking to in the future, he can negotiate a higher price than before.
This is more important to him.
Therefore, the Di people emphasized seriously and asked their subordinates to step up the reorganization of the defense line.
However, some people also suggested that Cao's army only set up flags on the top of the mountain and did not see soldiers appear. The Di general scolded the little leader and talked nonsense on the surface, but he couldn't help but mutter a little in his heart.
But soon, the food and equipment sent by Cao Zhen made the Di generals relieve their doubts.
The Di people who got the things were obviously very excited.
He picked the best armor and put it on his body, and then showed it to his subordinates, "Look at it! These are all good things! If we weren't here to guard it, how could those guys be willing to give us these good things?!"
He strided with his head high and his enthusiasm was swept away.
In the limited brain capacity of the Di people, what they got was naturally his.
It doesn’t matter whether the Cao army soldiers come or not. It’s good if these valuable things are delivered!
What's more, if Cao Zhen really arrived at Fangling, wouldn't he have to hand over Fangling's authority?
It's better to be like this now, he has the final say in Fang Ling.
The Di general did not think about fighting the cavalry army to the death, but he hoped that the more things he had in his hands, the better.
So how can we get these good things?
Of course, it made Cao Jun feel that they could resist the cavalry here, and they would send things continuously.
Chapter completed!