"What, you want to send troops from Fuzhou to Lanzhou to attack Taiyuan?"
Puban is also called Hezhong County, which is the seat of the prefecture of Puzhou (Hezhong Prefecture). The Yellow River turns a big bend at approximately a right angle in the southwest of Puzhou. Puban faces the Guanzhong Plain across the river to the west, and faces the Guanzhong Plain across the river to the south.
Facing each other along the ancient Zhuohan Road in the west of Luoyang, Zhongtiao Mountain is located in the south of Puban and extends close to the north bank of the Yellow River. It is an important place connecting Shaanxi and Henan.
King Jing Zhao Tuan served as the defense envoy of Puzhou and promoted the grain and salt affairs in Hedong, Luoyang and Shaanxi. He led the Xuanwu Army to sit in Puban and organized the emergency transportation of grain and fodder from Luoyang and Guanzhong to Jinzhou and Zezhou.
It was used by Gao Junyang and Zheng Huaizhong to support their troops.
In addition to Qian Shangduan, Qiao Jien, Deng Gui, Zhang Xin and others who all went to Puban, King Jing Zhao Tuan also petitioned to transfer Zhong Yingqiu to Puban County Magistrate.
In addition, King Jing Zhao Tuan also proposed that Puzhou be designated as a new food area for the Xuanwu Army, and the families of Xuanwu Army generals and soldiers recruited in Qinshui and other places would be moved to Puban and other counties for temporary resettlement to prevent the Red Husbands from going south.
, many generals and soldiers missed their relatives and were unwilling to evacuate.
The court was now in a mess, with no overall perspective. The memorials sent by King Jing and Zheng Huaizhong from Hedong were basically approved as long as they were not too excessive and seemed to be beneficial to the defense.
Everything in Puban is now following the originally discussed strategy. While it is proceeding in an orderly manner, Qian Shangduan and others did not expect that Xu Huai led the Yiqi battalion to return to Chushan from Puban for half a month, and suddenly returned to Puban secretly.
, and also proposed a battle plan to lead troops and horses to raid Taiyuan through Guanzhong.
At this time, Qian Shangduan, Zhang Xin, and Deng Gui who stayed in Puban were sitting on the left side of King Jing Zhao Tuan. They all stared at Xu Huai with their mouths open, wondering how he could come up with such a crazy plan.
Although the Chihu people have not yet captured Taiyuan City, the large areas of Xin, Dai, Wu, Lan and other prefectures north of Taiyuan, as well as Yunshuo further north, have been quickly digested by the Chihu people.
At this time, many surrendered generals and rebel generals such as Cao Shili was appointed as the governor of Lanzhou and marched to Wanhu, Yue Hailou was appointed as the governor of Yingzhou and deputy to marching to Wanhu, Yin Chao was appointed to be the governor of Xinzhou and deputy to marching to Wanhu, as well as Xiao Qian, Li Chulin and other Khitan surrendered generals
, based on Yunzhou, Shuozhou and other places, Dai Viet has long lost control of these places.
Even though the main force of Chihu's Western Route Army is very likely to rush southward without waiting for Taiyuan to be captured, there will certainly be many troops left to monitor the Taiyuan defenders.
In addition, Cao Shixiong will definitely be on guard against the soldiers and horses from Fuzhou in Lanzhou. Xu Huai leads three to five thousand troops from Lanzhou and raids Taiyuan. Is it enough to put a gap in people's teeth?
"When the Chihu people invade south again, they will inevitably bring a large number of surrendered soldiers and horses to help attack the city. However, Hedong, Hebei and Hehuai are in ruins, and it is difficult for their surrendered troops and horses to obtain sufficient supplies from these areas by looting.
, so they will inevitably take away as many of the relatively elite cavalry units in the vassal army as possible, and at the same time carry a large number of livestock so that if necessary, the mounts can be slaughtered to make up for the food."
Xu Huai sat on the right side of King Jing and calmly analyzed,
"Therefore, after the main force of the Chihu West Route Army goes south, even if some troops are left in Taiyuan and Lanzhou, Xinzhou and others in the north of Taiyuan, the combat effectiveness will not be too strong. On the one hand, the Taiyuan defenders were trapped for more than seven months and all their food supplies were exhausted.
, they defended the city with a passion in their chests and an unyielding determination to fight the Hulu, but in reality they had lost the ability to leave the city to fight back. On the other hand, the remnant tribes of Fuzhou and the Khitan in the Western Mountains tried their best to avoid
Conflict with the Japanese soldiers - these two points will cause the Red Husbands to ignore the threats from the rear and the rear. If I lead my troops there, there is no chance of victory!"
If Xu Huai wants to lead his troops to the north, he must of course get the support of King Jing Zhao Tuan, so that he can hide his traces better and mobilize the supplies needed for the battle from Puzhou and Guanzhong nearby, so as to achieve the purpose of quickly and quickly dispatching enemy information.
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"In addition to the feasibility of a surprise attack, there are three reasons why we need to take this risk," Xu Huai said. "First, whether the remnants of the Khitan tribe are willing to truly surrender to Dai Viet, and whether they will send troops to participate in the surprise attack on Taiyuan this time
, can we finally confirm it; secondly, the Fuzhou side still needs to strengthen restrictions; thirdly, the Red Husband cavalry invades the Hehuai River south again, and His Highness cannot do nothing..."
The affairs of the remnants of the Khitan clan are the easiest to understand.
Although some of the Khitan remnants were migrating from the Xishan area to Linzhou at this time, many people in the court were deeply worried that this would attract wolves into the house, and they always wanted to urge the Khitan remnants to use troops against the Chihu people as a token of surrender.
Although some of the descendants of the Gu family in Fuzhou participated in the defense of Bianliang in the Gyeonggi Forbidden Army, the imperial court repeatedly issued decrees, ordering the Gu family to organize troops in Fuzhou to harass Lanzhou and Shuozhou, and to contain some of the captive soldiers to alleviate the situation.
In response to the military pressure from the south, the Gu family did nothing in Fuzhou. It is difficult not to suspect that the Gu family, whose ancestors were from the Dangxiang clan, was making two preparations.
Therefore, whether Xu Huai led his troops from Fuzhou to Lanzhou, raided Taiyuan, and whether the remaining Khitan clan and the Gu family could actively cooperate will ultimately determine their future attitude.
In fact, Qian Shangduan, Zheng Huaizhong and others are also eager to verify this, and are worried that there is something abnormal about them that will directly threaten the security of the northeastern gateway to Guanzhong.
If Xu Huai wanted to send troops to raid Taiyuan, he could not do without the cooperation of the Gu family in Fuzhou. At this time, only King Jing could put pressure on the Gu family in Fuzhou.
Otherwise, how brave can Xu Huai be to convince the Gu family to completely give up the chance of flirting with the red soldiers and fully cooperate with them? Xu Huai is more confident in convincing Xiao Linshi.
As for the third reason, it is actually the most practical for King Jing.
The Red Husbands invaded the south again. As a prince, how could King Jing Zhao Tuan be completely indifferent and stand still with Zheng Huaizhong in Luoyang and Puzhou?
If this is really the case, how can we convince the people of the world to take it into consideration in the future?
Therefore, when the Red Husbands move south again, the Xuanwu Army and the Qin Feng Soldiers and Horses under Zheng Huaizhong will still have to fight. However, considering that the Chi Husbands will still send out heavy troops to block the Hulao line, if the Xuanwu Army and the Qin Feng Soldiers and Horses continue to be suppressed to the west of Hulao
If you do nothing, you will inevitably be criticized in the future.
If the Xuanwu Army and Qin Feng Army were suppressed by the red cavalry to the west of Hulao and were unable to advance eastward, but they sent their partial troops to detour thousands of miles and raid Taiyuan, who else in the world could criticize King Jing?
Qian Shangduan and Qiao Jien's eyes lit up, and Deng Guichi asked: "Can Taiyuan be defended until the main force of the Chihu West Route Army goes south? In any case, before the main force of the Chihu West Route Army goes south, they will definitely try to attack Taiyuan again!"
"Qian Zerui is in Puban. According to him, the Taiyuan army and people are extremely determined to defend the city, and now the Taiyuan army and people have no way to retreat! The destruction of the city means the massacre of the city, and they can only defend until the day they can no longer defend it.
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Because the discussion involved extremely sensitive issues such as fighting for the right to support the emperor, Xu Huai could not directly bring Qian Zerui to participate in the secret discussion and said,
"If the main force of Chihu's Western Route Army has captured Taiyuan before going south, we will at most harass Lanzhou, but we will not be able to penetrate deeply into Taiyuan. We will not even attack Lanzhou. At most, it will be a wasted trip and preparations, but there will be no more.
Loss!"
"Can the soldiers of Chushan withstand such an arduous surprise attack?" King Jing Zhao Tuan asked worriedly.
Although the Xuanwu Army's combat effectiveness is acceptable, it cannot be said to be an elite in hundreds of battles; Zheng Huaizhong currently chooses to support him, but King Jing Zhao Tuan does not have real trust in Zheng Huaizhong, but more of a relationship of mutual cooperation; and with the southeast,
King Qin's troops and horses in the southwestern routes were disbanded. Even though Hu Kai continued to serve as Caizhou's defense envoy, Yang Lin's troops were less than 10,000, and they could not be said to be elite.
The only elite combat force that King Jing Zhao Tuan can rely on now is the Chushan soldiers.
From the first northern expedition against Yan to the raid on Qinshui, Chushan soldiers participated in dozens of large and small battles under the leadership of Xu Huai, almost without stopping in the past three or four years.
King Jing Zhao Tuan was firstly worried about whether the Chushan soldiers who had not undergone thorough rest and recuperation would be able to undertake the combat mission of running thousands of miles away. Secondly, he was worried that the Chushan soldiers would suffer heavy casualties in their attack on Taiyuan, leaving him with no elite combat force to rely on.
"Chushan has mobilized two thousand soldiers with all its strength, and we can still fight!" Xu Huai said.
He didn't explain too much, and he didn't want the outside world to know too much about the internal military system of Chushan soldiers.
Although the soldiers of Chushan have been fighting endlessly in the past few years, especially around this year when they participated in the defense of Gongxian and the raid on Qinshui across the river, it seems that the intensity of the battle is very high. However, within the Chushan camp, even the cavalry soldiers are taking turns to fight.
, and the casualties were all replenished in a timely manner.
Even the war horses pay great attention to the rotation of their charioteers.
At this time, Xu Huai was able to pull out 2,000 elite soldiers from Chu Mountain who had been recuperating for a long time, 2,000 fat and strong war horses, and an equal number of camels.
Of course, with only two thousand elite soldiers from Chushan, the strength is still slightly less. If Puban sends some soldiers and horses, as well as the remnants of the Khitan clan and the Gu family of Fuzhou to send troops to cooperate, it is entirely possible to raid Taiyuan while the main force of the Chihu West Route Army moves south.
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"Let me invite Qian Zerui over, and I will ask carefully about the situation in Taiyuan." King Jing Zhao Tuan did not ask Qian Shangduan and Qiao Jien about their opinions, knowing that they would be opposed. After all, this is really not theirs.
In terms of style, Xu Huai is always the one who takes the eccentric approach...
