Chapter 578
"Sikong, please see, this is the battlefield where the general defeated the Wu army, captured Cheng Pu, and killed Ling Cao four days ago. He dared to fight 30,000 people after only three thousand people!
At this point, Cheng Pu still shrank the round formation at the beginning and did not dare to move. Later, the general pretended to send the main force to Wei Yan to avoid the battle. There were only eight hundred cavalry left by his side. Cheng Pu relaxed his guard, and then the general really came to the enemy and us and rushed forward to the decisive battle!
At that time, the entire Changban area had blood flowed for more than ten miles, and the fishy weathered the sky. My subordinates knew that Sikong must pay tribute to the battlefield. These days, people were so frustrated that they had some smell."
On the long-board slope, the short clown Zhang Song introduced the scene in front of him with a slightly guided tour.
Li Su rode a black war horse, wearing exquisite silver-plated steel plate armor, a sword inlaid with seven treasures hanging on the waist, holding a closed iron fracture fan, and a Shu brocade cloak covered in the wind in the coldness of early winter.
The war horse stood at the highest altitude north of Changbanpo. Li Su looked down at the downhill dozens of miles in front of him and listened to Zhang Song's flattering explanation. The iron cavalry lined up on both sides kept a distance, and no horse dared to stand at a higher altitude point.
The entrance of Jingmen Valley behind it is like a huge natural wind tunnel, constraining the wind blowing from the northwest in the Jushui River Valley until the mountains on both sides suddenly become clear, and the wind forms turbulent flow, making Li Su's cloak more bulging than the sails that are full of food.
The artistic conception of guiding the country is still very touching.
However, Li Su was slightly compassionate after all. He had no melee martial arts skills and had never killed anyone. Seeing some unwashed red and black blood marks on the remaining roots of some decayed grass, he was also a little compassionate.
"Zilong is full of courage." Li Su sighed after he figured out the battle situation at that time.
Zhang Song: "Sikong made a lot of witty words. The later general's achievements in this battle were praised by Sikong, and they must have been passed down as a beautiful story in history."
Li Su raised his hand: "Hey, don't remember what circumstances I said this, as if I was very keen on killing. Those who died were all great men. His Majesty's purpose was to stop the war and serve as a martial arts.
The country and the country are in the fortification, and the people are alive and happy. Don’t talk about being a marquis, and one general succeeds to the death of thousands of bones.”
In the first half of Li Su's words, he talked to Zhang Song in a low voice, and his voice was not as far away.
However, the second half of the poem was chanted with sad and bright tone, and it drifted away with the wind. Zhao Yun, who had been standing outside for dozens of steps away, also heard it, and then pulled the horse to approach it, and made a fair evaluation:
"Boya is good at poetry, but she is not arrogant after a great victory. After all, she has been friends for many years and knows my heart deeply. Mencius said: Is the world evil? It is determined. If we kill, we will be killed. If we don't kill, we will be shocked quickly, destroy the enemy's courage, and let the Han Dynasty return to unification as soon as possible."
All the cultural relics bureaucrats with identity at the scene praised by Zhao Yun and praised Li Su's good poems one by one. This sentence "A general succeeds and thousands of bones are undone", which can be said to have formed a two-people jade of civil and military spirits with Zhao Yun's three thousand iron cavalry to defeat the Wu army.
Li Su turned his horse's head and patted Zhao Yun's shoulder armor with a smile. The arc-shaped forged steel armor made a shiny sound:
"Zilong, I have been studying for the past two years and I will definitely say it badly. However, it is indeed appropriate. Killing people is to force the landing of the lost men who are trapped faster. As for titles and fiefs, you and I still have no choice. Come and get wine. Today's discussion will be revealed."
Several guards brought a few big gourds, Li Su and Zhao Yun each one, and Li Su rarely generously filled several large holes to tons.
After drinking, Li Su also felt that it was not advisable to blow the cold wind after drinking. There was nothing else on Changban slope, so she rode downhill and returned to the city slowly.
Zhao Yun took advantage of this leisure time to ask for advice: "Our army now has 20,000 elite soldiers in Dangyang. What should we do next? The scout just reported this morning that Zhou Yu also arrived in Jiangling yesterday. The total number of enemy troops was more than 80,000. Including Cai Mao and the local private soldiers of the Han family who rebeled from the Han family in Nanjun, they could raise 90,000.
There are at least 60,000 people in Jiangling City, 70,000 in Hanjin, Jingling, and 5,000 people camped at Jiangjinkou in the south of Jiangling City. More than 10,000 people are on Xiashui and Xiaze to patrol and assist in defense, or stationed in the enemy-behind counties in the eastern part of Nanjun, such as Wulin and other places."
Li Su nodded and listened to Zhao Yun's explanation humbly. He did not immediately make a decision on the tactics of the subsequent stages. After all, he attached great importance to the collection of information before decision-making.
Of course, Li Su had investigated the general structure of the enemy and us before the war, but the situation on the battlefield changed rapidly. After a few days of fighting, what new changes and adjustments must be reported in real time.
So, he checked the missing and made up for a problem: "What about our army? Apart from Dangyang's 20,000 people, are there any losses in the other directions?"
Zhao Yun: "Of course there is no loss. Sun Ce has not achieved any new results these days. Zhou Tai has 15,000 people in Hanyang, intercepting Sun Ce's return journey, and more than 10,000 people in Ganning are in Baqiu, blocking the possibility of Sun Ce's southward going to Xiaoxiang from the south.
Li Yan had five thousand elite soldiers in Yiling to prevent Sun Ce from continuing to enter Sichuan to harass him. In addition, our army was in the north, with a total of 50,000 soldiers who could attack and mobilize at any time on all sides of the southeast, west and north. The militia defending the city did not count.
However, our army is on the periphery, but there are mountains and rivers. Except for Yiling Li Yan, the other Zhou Tai and Gan Ning are currently difficult to contact. Zhou Yu isolates the Xia River and the Yangtze River, and cannot coordinate with the troops behind the enemy in the east and south in a timely manner. It is very difficult to attack."
There is still hope for 50,000 people to beat 90,000 people, but the difficulty will increase when divided into several areas.
But no matter what, the situation is much better than before the Battle of Changbanpo. If Zhao Yun had not wiped out 20,000 enemies in Changbanpo, now it would have been 50,000 to fight 110,000.
After Li Su fully understood the situation, Zhizhu smiled while holding it: "Since Zilong, you can see that our soldiers are less divided and the attack is very difficult, so we won't attack. Jiangling City is not without food, so I'm afraid that I can't afford to invite guests? Let Sun Ce eat for another month or two, and eat until the end of the year and the cold winter month.
Then the cold winter will be dry and the water level will drop to the lowest level. In the summer water, even those ships carrying three or five hundred people will not be able to drive the ships, so they can only pass by. If Sun Ce only wants to leave at that time, would he still be willing to abandon the ships and ships? Even if he is willing to throw them away, he will not be able to defeat our army without a large ship."
Zhao Yun's heart moved and sincerely bowed to his advice: "Do you want to... force Sun Ce to retreat or fight with our army in the future, he can only walk on the main road on the Yangtze River, and cannot escape from the Xiashui and Hanshui?"
Li Su: "That's what it means."
Zhao Yun: "Then will our army use the attack on Jiangling City in the end?"
Li Su: "I hope it doesn't need to, at least, not to face the main force of Sun Ce's army in the siege of Jiangling - I will force his main force to withdraw the city and rescue Jiangdong, and then annihilate it on the Yangtze River.
In this way, even if we want to attack Jiangling in the end, we will only be a few enemy troops left behind in the city. It is possible that when Sun Ce withdraws, in order to prevent the Jiangling defenders from becoming an isolated army, they will be reluctant to leave their direct troops to defend them sooner or later."
Zhao Yun: "That's just trying to surround Wei and save Zhao? Boya, there is a saying that I have to remind you that Sun Ce and Zhou Yu could skip the city and jump directly into Jiangling behind despite the Hanyang Fortress in Zhou Tai's hands. That's because he knew that Jiangling had countless grain reserves, and Cai Maonei should ensure that the defenders would not burn grain when he seized the city. In this way, he dared to go deeper into the food channel.
If our army imitates "hiding Sun Ce's main force, and then splitting out a side army to go down the river and attacking the hinterland of Jiangdong, there will be no guarantee of food channels. To the east of Jiangxia, all territories are Sun Ce's direct sphere of influence, and the key cities are guarded by famous generals, and they cannot be defeated for a while.
Even if they are broken, they will strengthen the walls and clear the fields and burn the granary, so as not to let the military rations fall into the hands of our army. In this way, even if the water-based combat belts and the army have more food than the land, they will sooner or later be exhausted. Sun Ce does not have to worry about the lack of protection of his nest, so he does not have to retreat."
When Li Su heard this, she smiled proudly: "Zilong, even you think so, then I will make Sun Ce and Zhou Yu feel at ease to hold on to Jiangling and delay time even more. Don't worry, take one step at a time. Anyway, forcing Sun Ce to leave will be a matter of two months later. If you worry too long in advance, it will be easy to leak the secret."
It’s not that Li Su didn’t believe in Zhao Yun, but that his specific strategy of forcing Sun Ce to return to defense was just a vague plan. In the future, we must adapt to the development and choose a certain strategy in the upper, middle and lower-level strategy. The time is not yet ripe and cannot choose.
If Liu Bei came to ask for advice in person today, Li Su would have to say it first. Since the people around him are not as big as his official position, it would be easy to explain.
Zhao Yun didn't ask much: "Then during this period, can we just hold our troops still?"
Li Su: "That's not necessary. It's still necessary to attack tentatively, but you should be relatively leisurely. In this battle in Changbanpo, three thousand people killed 20,000 enemies, and Sun Ce must have been brave enough to fight the land.
Now that he meets Zhou Yu, he must be thinking of "resolutely avoiding land wars and only fighting water." Let's find some secondary targets, such as pretending to cut off their waterways in Hanjinkou in advance, and sending a small number of naval troops to attack Hanjinkou from the Han River.
Only defeat is allowed but not win, at least we cannot really win. In this way, we can find out the tactical strength of Zhou Yu's water battle, and secondly, we can further strengthen Sun Ce and Zhou Yu's confidence in "Invincible in the Eastern Wu water battle". After all, it will take two months to fight, and we need to constantly remind and strengthen their belief."
When Zhao Yun heard the words "only defeat but not win", he subconsciously thrust like a conditioned reflex. Fortunately, he reacted quickly and realized that this time it was a water battle to deceive defeat, not a land battle, and it was not his business.
Zhao Yun asked with compassion: "Who will be the turn to cheat and defeat this time?"
Li Su calculated by hand: "Youping is in Hanyang, Xingba is in Baqiu, then let's go to Ziyi. Ziyi has just been transferred from His Majesty this time and was fighting in the north before."
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After talking about the subsequent strategic deployment with Li Su for a period of time, Zhao Yun said nothing that night.
But the next day, Zhao Yun found that he had made the problem simple - he thought that if Taishi Ci had this fraud mission, he would be idle and have nothing to do, but Li Su would not make him so relaxed.
So, on October 27th, Li Su still led an army of 20,000 from Dangyang to the south, took all the main generals in Dangyang, and headed straight for Jiangling.
Li Su's purpose was to make a fight with Sun Ce, and to scold the enemy by the way, to further attack the enemy's morale and righteousness.
The content of the appointment was naturally land battles and field battles. Li Su knew that Sun Ce would not dare to fight. After all, 20,000 people had just been annihilated, and even if it was still 90,000 to fight 20,000, he might not dare to go out of the city to fight in a field battle, and he would only defend the city.
But Sun Ce didn't come out, and Li Su had to make an appointment, so that the whole set of acting skills was considered to be considered a complete set - Li Su had to act like "I also know that the Northern Army's Marine War has a greater advantage, and there is no advantage in water war" and give priority to land war. Sun Ce refused to fight land war, so Li Su had to choose water war, and then went to Taishi Ci, and was defeated by Zhou Yu... The rhythm of the script was very perfect.
This is also a hint to firmly firm the enemy's inherent thinking on the analysis of advantages and disadvantages.
Moreover, the emergence of this strange situation is also related to the special situation of this battle - if it was a normal outbreak of battle, these major tasks would have been done before the battle started.
For example, you usually find someone like Chen Lin to write a manifesto, which will list the crimes of the enemy.
But this time, Sun Ce was a despicable and sneak attack. Since Li Su had taken the blame, he didn't have time to scold the other party because of the hasty incident.
How could Li Su bear this? Of course, he had to show off his might and block the door and curse him enough, and he still did not dare to go out of the city to fight, which hit the other party's morale to the extreme.
Dangyang was one hundred miles away from Jiangling, Li Su rushed to the army for two days, and stopped ten miles outside the north gate of Jiangling City on the 29th, and then divided the vanguard troops to continue to break out and curse at the city.
Li Su's voice is not big enough, so of course he is only responsible for providing lines. He will be accusing loudspeakers when he shouts.
However, Li Su was still very imposing. She was still wearing the silver-plated gold-plated plate armor she wore when she inspected the battlefield yesterday, and she was not worried about the enemy's attention to his position.
The reason why he was so sure was that when Li Su came out of the formation, there were twenty cavalrymen in front of him who did not use weapons, but only raised a three-point thick forged steel shield to cover it, and at the same time he held a paper tube horn.
Moreover, Li Su is Zhao Yun on his left and Dian Wei on his right. In order to prevent the enemy from sniping at him, Huang Zhong is also behind him secretly holding a bow and guarding him.
With such strict protection, Li Su certainly dared to approach Jiangling City with hundreds of plate-armored cavalry.
"I am the great Han Sikong Li Su, and Sun Ce's son quickly came out to answer! I brought 20,000 soldiers today. I heard that you have 90,000 people, so I went out of the city to fight if I had sex!
Could it be that you know that you are betrayal and dare not see anyone? Since you dare not fight, you dare to attack my Han prefectures and counties? It’s really shameless! The Wu soldiers in the city listen carefully, what a traitor your lord is!
At the beginning of the year, when Zhuge Fujun of Yuzhang died of illness, the late emperor was still there, so he invaded Yuzhang, which was like a rebellion! It was only because Yuan Shu later rebelled, and Emperor Zhangwu thought that it was the time to recruit Luo heroes and work together to fight against Yuan and eliminate the thieves and remove the filth.
Therefore, I temporarily endure his rebellion, abandon flaws and take advantage of it, divide the troops and order sharply, hoping to get one graft from the Qin army. Now it seems that Your Majesty is magnanimous, and only in exchange for this dog thief is getting worse and worse!
Later, Liu Jingzhou thought of the Han Dynasty's relatives and clans who were in harmony with each other, regardless of their own interests, and worked together to respect Your Majesty to fight against the thieves. He colluded with Huang Zu again, betrayed the king and treason, and destroyed the cause of Yuan Daye.
Your Majesty remembered that the two Yuan Fang had the trouble of being secretly taught and suffered, but the meaning of being strong and weak branches was strong and the virtue of killing the evil of the leader. He was tolerant again and gave him the opportunity to reform and see the form clearly.
Unexpectedly, although this wolf and dog disciple has been forgiven twice, he will never die! Now he is even more aggressive. He takes advantage of His Majesty's removal of the bad government of selecting officials and enlisting imperial examinations, colluding with evil gentry in Jingzhou to conspire to rebel and seize our Jiangling.
Fortunately, the will of heaven favored Yan Han, and the later general rushed to help at night. The king's army showed his power and broke through in one battle. Changban killed Ling Cao, and Dangyang captured Cheng Pu. Twenty thousand thieves were destroyed in ashes while chatting and laughing! You followed Sun Ce and were obsessed with it, and sooner or later they would be destroyed!
Sun Ce! If you still have a man's mind, go out of the city to fight me. Otherwise, you will go home and wash your neck and wait for death! I, Li Su, have been an official for more than ten years and have never seen such a shameless person!"
Sun Ce is also a rather rude person. He has a relatively low tolerance for things like aggressive generals and seeking war. When Li Su pressed him to the ground and scolded him like this, his soul was so angry that he was so angry that he was smoking.
"Don't stop me! Isn't it just a field battle? There are 60,000 or 70,000 people in our city, and I'm really afraid that he will bring 20,000 people to the field battle!" Sun Ce was furious and beat the iron armor on the guards who stopped him beside him, making a clanging sound.
Zhou Yu tried his best to stop him: "Bo Fu, don't be reckless! We are not irresistible! Water battles are also fights. Li Su has always been cunning and resourceful. Although he brought 20,000 people to make a fight today, who knows if there is any trick! You must not be beaten by his aggressive generals! As long as you agree to him for a water battle, it will not be embarrassing!"
Chapter completed!