The more you rob the extra, the more you die.

On October 20th, Tuoba Liwei and the main coalition forces of Lou Ban broke through the pass between Liaoxi and Youbeiping on the twelfth day after entering.

It was also the fourth day after they bypassed several strong cities in western Liaoning and entered Bohai County to burn, kill and loot.

The defense of Tianchou and Tianyu, which was like bones in the throat, and the temptation of the materials hoarded in the Tuyin City, made the nomadic coalition, delayed at least five or six days before he relentlessly focused on the ultimate only goal of "robbing Bohai County".

In other words, if they had not been all this, they had at least burned, killed and looted the Bohai ground for nine days, and maybe even the surrounding area of ​​Nanpi City were completely snatched. From this perspective, the blocking and delay of Tian Chou and others was quite valuable.

Even so, because the grassland coalition forces are huge in scale, the absolute amount of damage is still shocking.

The three counties of Bohai, Yubeiping, western Liaoning, were added together, and the people killed had reached the scale of tens of thousands.

And there are at least 200,000 homeless fugitives.

There is no way, the strategic level sneak attack was successful, and the initial time difference was so amazing.

Not to mention a person who is a heroic ruler like Tuoba Liwei, even if he is a man like Meng Da, he would be arrogant and happy for eight days when he first started his army in history? Eight days later, Sima Yi brought reinforcements from Wancheng to Shangyong to suppress the rebellion. Meng Da’s good days were over.

This is how the mobility of the army in the late Han Dynasty is, we must respect science.

From Wancheng to Shangyong, in the "Three Kingdoms" game map, there are still two adjacent counties, and they all take eight days to walk.

Zhuge Liang and Gao Shun rushed to help this time, and the attack base was much farther from western Liaoning. In the game, they would go to the two counties.

So, on the 20th day, when Wuhuan Shanyu Louban was besieging Nanpi City, he listened to the report of the scouts who came back from Nanbian:

It is said that a large-scale reinforcement army in the Han army had already flowed down the Yellow River and landed at the ferry on the north bank of the Yellow River at the junction of Pingyuan County and Bohai County, and rushed to reinforce.

When Lou Ban got the news, he was still quite surprised: "The reinforcements of the Han army came so quickly? Even if they came from Liyang, tens of thousands of troops could reach the north bank of the Yellow River ferry at the junction of Pingyuan County and Bohai County in twelve days? No! This account cannot be calculated like this!

The twelve days were counted from the breaking entrance between Liaoxi and Youbeiping. The Han people still need one day to confirm whether the enemy was a feint or a main attack. It takes at least two or three days to report the news from Liaoxi to Yecheng. In this way, Zhuge Liang led troops to support the enemy from Sili and Jizhou, and only walked for about eight days?"

Nanpi City is the capital of Bohai County and is also the richest place for stockpiling materials in the Bohai Sea. It is many times richer than those in frontiers such as Youbeiping, western Liaoning. It can be said that in the entire Jizhou, apart from Yecheng, Nanpi is the city with the most wealthy population.

The specific location of Nanpi is about the center of Bohai County, so there is only a hundred miles left from the Yellow River Ferry at the junction of Pingyuan County.

Zhuge Liang landed. If he ignored the food route, he could rely on the rear and marched for one day to reach Nanpi. If he walked steadily, it would only take two days.

So there is really not much time left for the building class.

He also lacked counselors around him, so he could only make decisions based on experience and feelings by using the combat instincts and command talents accumulated by the prairie princes over the years.

Lou Banshanyu thought about it and immediately asked the scout to explain the situation clearly: "How many people do Zhuge Liang and Gao Shun have? Do you need to go in a hurry or slow down in the future?"

The scout immediately added: "As soon as our army discovered that the Han army fleet was landing, they rushed forward and expelled. Dozens of scout brothers did not expect that the Han army was so surging and were shot to death.

Judging from the size of the fleet, the Han army may have 30,000 to 40,000, or 50,000 people. We should have marched quickly. We did not hesitate to run back to the more than 100 miles to report the news, and it took three hours. At this time, Zhuge Liang's front army probably had traveled dozens of miles, and now it should not be more than sixty or seventy miles away from our army."

The Lou Ban was a little unbelievable: "So fast? Could it be that most of the cavalry?"

Scout: "From the men and horses when they landed, most of them were infantry. If they were cavalry, the fleet size should not be able to transport so many horses."

Lou Ban nodded when he heard this, and he still trusted this information. The most experienced scout officer under his command could not even misevaluate the fleet's capacity after seeing a fleet on the Yellow River.

Only if there are too many people who carry more boats, there are not enough people to feed their capacity. But it is impossible for many people who carry less boats, so it will be overwhelming, and it will not violate the laws of nature.

When Lou Ban learned that Zhuge Liang was not large in number and was not mainly cavalry, and he dared to make such a lightweight rush to rush for help, he could not help but feel a surge of hope in his heart.

He thought to himself: "The scout said that Zhuge Liang had about 30,000 to 50,000 people, that would be 40,000. Our grassland coalition forces are in the Bohai Sea in the west of Liaoning, and there are more than 200,000, but they have not yet gathered, but there are half of the people and more than 100,000 people in Bohai County.

If reinforcements gather together, Zhuge Liang and Gao Shun are no match for us at all. Our army has horses, and if necessary, they can join forces within two or three days at most.

Since ancient times, the heroic lord of the grassland and the Central Plains dynasty have not relied on the strength of the army, but on the coming and going like the wind.

No matter how many routes the Han people come to help, or to attack in a group, we can take advantage of the opportunity when the Han people are slow to move and arrive at the battlefield in a different time, and concentrate our troops to defeat one or two of them.

If Zhuge Liang and Zhao Yun arrive at the same time, or even dragged him to Zhang Fei, our army would have no choice but to immediately give up the follow-up plan and withdraw directly from the pass. But now Zhuge Liang arrives first, and kills Zhuge Liang first!

As for him, he was mainly in infantry and forced his troops to rush to help Nanpi, regardless of logistics and morale, his mind could be guessed:

I must have known that Bohai County is rich, and that one day of burning and killing our army, the more one day it will lose. Every day, hundreds of millions of wealth plunders, thousands of people killed, and tens of thousands of displacement. So Liu Bei gave Zhuge Liang the order of death, asking him to rescue Bohai as soon as possible, the better.

Moreover, the Han army was fighting defensively, and Zhuge Liang marched urgently without supplies. He bet that he could join forces with the Nanpi defenders and use the food in Nanpi City to replenish supplies.

But if our army decisively blocks and does not give Zhuge Liang the opportunity to break the siege and enter the city to meet with the Nanpi defenders? Wouldn't Zhuge Liang not be able to make the deployment of 'go wherever he goes'? At that time, seeing Nanpi Jiancheng besieged, but unable to break into it, we must fight hard with our army, or the infantry forcefully marched for more than a hundred miles, breaking the enemy will be the near future!"

After thinking through these principles thoroughly, Lou Ban Shanyu suddenly felt that his future was bright. Although the combat power of the Han army should not be underestimated, the Han army's underestimation of the enemy gave him too much opportunity!

With such a good opportunity, of course, we must resolutely surround the points and fight the aid of the Nanpi first.

The reason why he is so confident is related to some other specific situations on the battlefield in Bohai County a few days ago.

Originally, even if Zhuge Liang had to rely on the grain in Nanpi City to eat on the spot, even if this could not be done, Zhuge Liang should have a way out, that is, on the more than 100 miles of road, there were also fertile North China Plain. From the ferry on the north bank of the Yellow River on the plain to Nanpi, there were people who could force their winter food to be stored.

Therefore, even if Zhuge Liang cannot enter the city, he will be able to make a fuss with the people, make a time difference, and wait for the court to turn around.

But the problem is that in the past few days, Lou Ban has already snatched all the plains between Nanpi and the north bank of the Yellow River without any danger!

There were no fortresses in these places, and the Han army did not hoard any military rations. There was only food for some people in the countryside and in the destruction-free small counties.

As soon as the grassland coalition transited, of course, it was completely wiped out like locusts, forcing Zhuge Liang to march in the grain-free area, or to go far away from the Yellow River waterways and other rivers, which was simply seeking death!

The grassland coalition quickly dispatched the troops according to the deployment of the Lou Squad. At the same time, the Lou Squad quickly sent a fast horse to contact and gather troops a little further north, so that Tuoba Liwei could also move closer to him.

The Hu people's fast horse speed was faster than the Han people. The messengers could notify all the troops in less than a day, and immediately set up (the farthest is equivalent to Cangzhou to Qinhuangdao, about five or six hundred miles, and the fast horse messengers could notify them in one day. For the grassland army in Youbeiping, it was equivalent to Cangzhou to Tangshan, only more than three hundred miles, and it arrived in half a day. Horse racing was very fast on the Hebei Plain.)

Everyone worked together to eat a part of the Han army first, kill Zhuge Liang, and then turn around and concentrate on dealing with the possible Zhao Yun or Zhang Fei, and make a perfect time difference.

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For most of the day after that, I spent the rhythm of preparing for the horse and gathering with both sides. The atmosphere was very tense, but before the fight started, both sides were moving to seize advantageous positions and bringing distance.

Until it was getting dark, the messenger of the Lou team had already notified Tuoba Liwei, and Tuoba Liwei had made a quick decision and cooperated with all his strength.

On the Han army in the south, Zhuge Liang and Gao Shun also brought 40,000 people to a place that was only more than 30 miles away from Nanpi County.

There was originally a county town in that place, which also belonged to Bohai County, and was called Dongguang County.

However, Dongguang is much smaller than Nanpi, and the city wall is also broken and low. After the unification, Liu Bei was eager to resume production and rebuild the broken Jizhou well. The military situation naturally needs to be lowered a little further. There are no dangers to defend on the Hebei Plain. There are so many county towns, so it is impossible to rebuild tall city walls everywhere and cannot be defended.

So when Zhuge Liang arrived, Dongguang County was already in a state of half ruins. He was captured and robbed by Lou Ban, and nothing was left. The surviving people and the remaining wealth that had not been plundered were also scattered and hidden.

Fortunately, the ruins can be used and some civil waste can be removed for camping, so Zhuge Liang and Gao Shun steadily built a fairly appropriate camp on the plain north of Dongguang City with the materials they had removed.

Zhuge Liang's reaction was really beyond Lou Ban's expectations. Because the grassland generals thought that Zhuge Liang would be eager to tear a hole in the Nanpi encirclement and then enter the city to join forces to raise food and grass.

Although there is no shortage of building materials on the ruins of Dongguang County, there is a shortage of food. What's the point of such a stalemate?

Therefore, Zhuge Liang dared to do this, of course there was a conspiracy.

After establishing the camp, Zhuge Liang released scouts overnight to grasp the enemy's movements.

He even divided the heavy cavalry teams of thousands of people and acted in groups to test the small groups of cavalry that destroyed the grassland coalition forces and robbed them everywhere. He would beat them up when they caught them, suppressing the robbery, burning and killing operations of the grassland coalition forces.

Once the enemy's main cavalry retaliates, the Han cavalry will immediately shrink and retreat. Relying on the excellent armor, even if the Han cavalry is not fast enough, it will be caught up. It is not a big problem, because it cannot escape but can break through, and it is impossible to stop it. Moreover, the distance for casting the net will not be very long, and it will not be more than thirty or forty miles away from the main camp, so the cavalry will easily come back.

In this way, Zhuge Liang not only stopped the harm of the grassland coalition's continued spreading looting to the south, stabilized his position, but also understood the enemy's situation as soon as possible.

After a fierce and small-scale scout war, Zhuge Liang had already roughly understood the idea of ​​Lou Ban on the next morning.

In the reinforcements camp and in the central army's tent, Zhuge Liang sat in the position of commander and discussed the follow-up response with Gao Shun.

You read that right, Zhuge Liang was in the position of commander of the Central Army. After all, he was already the Central Secretariat Order, and he was considered the treatment of the three imperial court officials. Of course, he was the commander of the general in charge of the rescue, while Gao Shun was considered the general who specifically commanded the troops and commanded the war.

Zhuge Liang and Gao Shun have been working with each other for more than ten years. They built canals in Nanyang County and fought stalemates with Cao's army in Kunyang and Ruyang areas. But at first, Gao Shun was the head coach, while Zhuge Liang was the second most in status, similar to the role of a military supervisor.

Who made Zhuge Liang get promoted quickly? He could continue to make achievements in peacetime, and ten years later, the status of the two was completely reversed. However, those generals had not been promoted in ten years, so they could only stay on the spot.

At this moment, Zhuge Liang understood the movements of the Lou Clan and immediately judged that the plan he arranged casually on the way had worked:

"Loubanpi was indeed unwise and used a little trick. He thought our army was eager to advance, "and traveled a hundred miles a day to seek profit, but he could beat the general'.

He neither retreated nor fought at the beginning, but kept surrounding Nanpi City, waiting for our army to attack his besieged camp corridor, waiting for his leisure to work. This is certain that we did not bring food and grass to march in a hurry, and felt that we were going to enter Nanpi City to get food."

After listening to Gao Shun touched his beard, he felt that there was no problem with what Zhuge Liang said, but the IQ of the Lou class was too low, so how could it be so easy to be fooled?

Gao Shun asked in confusion: "How could Lou Ban feel that just this can make our army short of food? Even if we can't enter Nanpi City, our army can still transfer 100 miles of land supply from the ferry on the north bank of the Yellow River in Pingyuan County by land by cattle, horse and vehicle.

The rich land of Jizhou, even if the hundreds of miles around are robbed, the food in the distance can still be transported quickly. Isn’t our army still going to stand up as long as we want?

Moreover, the order to march on the Yellow River was to pretend that "our army was timid and unwilling to go to the Mashui closer to Nanpi. The Daqing River advanced because these small rivers could not drive large ships, and the small boats had no shelter, and were easily harassed and injured by cavalry along the coast's cavalry.

At that time, I thought this reason was quite far-fetched and difficult to act. The Lou team would definitely be alert to whether we were going to be separated. Who knew that the Lou team was completely unaware of it, and the tricks prepared by our army had no chance to use. Could it be that there was a fraud?"

In layman's terms, Gao Shun's words are: I think my acting skills are poor, but the other party didn't even have the chance to find out that I needed acting skills, so my acting skills were useless.

Zhuge Liang shook the handle of the fan and smiled easily: "The Hu people in the grassland don't have to think about this, and they are not worried about the two grain-raising routes you mentioned - as long as Lou Ban finds me rashly, but hesitates when he comes to the end and dares not attack the Nanpi Siege Camp, he will definitely be happy to see it.

On the one hand, he must be informing Tuoba Liwei and other Hu people to gather together and wait for a few days, which would definitely be beneficial to him. His reinforcements would arrive first, but Zhao Piqi and Zhang Taiwei did not come so quickly.

So he is willing to see waiting within three days, and waiting for more than five days and eight days is something he doesn't like. He wants to change his course, and he can also wait until the difference between the two periods of time before adjusting.

On the other hand, when he saw our army coming in exhaustion, he set up camp on the plains, posing as a "steering the horn with the defenders in the city". He would definitely find a way to surround us. If he didn't surround yesterday, he would definitely surround today, and at the latest to tomorrow.

At that time, the grain route will be cut off. Even if the grain from the Yellow River Ferry or Daqing River can be transported, as long as it is not transported into our army's camp, the end of this section of the road will be blocked, and our army will have to go out to fight in the field and escort the grain team. What's the use of the strong camp? Will Lou Ban force a chance to let our army fight against it at the time he hopes? He will definitely be happy to do so."

Gao Shun thought it was the same. There are two ways to achieve the goal of "stop Zhuge Liang from meeting with the Nanpi defenders and eating the food in Nanpi City".

The first one is to surround Nanpi.

The second point is to cut off the firewood from the bottom of the pot. If you directly surround Zhuge Liang, you can still cut off the food. No matter whether the other food channels are smooth or not, you will cut off your "last mile" and not let you send it to the military camp.

Fortunately, all these seemingly perfect arrangements were not what Lou Ban thought of himself, but what Zhuge Liang made a random arrangement to induce Lou Ban thought of.

Since that is the case, of course, all of this was what Zhuge Liang took the initiative to see, and there must be a terrible backup plan.

This time, Liu Bei actually gave Zhuge Liang 50,000 reinforcements, but Zhuge Liang only got 40,000 people on the front battlefield. There were still 10,000 people. One day in advance, they passed through the Yellow River section at the junction of Pingyuan County and Bohai County at night. At this moment, it was estimated that he had already sailed downstream from the Yellow River mouth and reached the Bohai Sea.

At the same time, Zhuge Liang also asked Liu Bei to agree to send Taishi Ci's troops, who had just returned to the Central Plains this year, to assemble some troops from the north coast of the Qingzhou Peninsula, and to join forces with Zhuge Liang's 10,000 people, to carry them in Zhuge Liang's fleet, and then land directly in the Bohai Bay between Youbeiping and western Liaoning.

As long as Tuoba Liwei and Lou Ban dared to siege and rescue the Han reinforcements in Nanpi, the rear would be empty. Zhuge Liang would let them see what it means to land and cut off the enemy's way back.

Of course, under the leadership of Taishi Ci, the 20,000 people could not last long even if the landing battle was successful after the termination. As long as these Hu people reacted and withdrew their troops with all their might, they could still break through or take a detour.

But Zhuge Liang did not expect Taishi Ci to do his best. Taishi Ci would delay a time difference, defeat part of the enemy's rear troop, smash his spirit, regain his baggage, food, and supplies. Then, Zhao Yun would naturally come to clean up the mess.

The main force of the Liaodong cavalry is only five or six days later than Taishici's landing force, or seven or eight days at most.
Chapter completed!