After Li Tai's emotional persuasion and Xiao Zhi's rational persuasion, Wu Mingche also accepted this arrangement. With Wu Mingche's joining, the team Li Tai prepared for Chen Chang finally had a team.
A strong support point.
Because he still had to discuss with Nan Chen the issue of cooperating to send troops to attack Huainan, after finalizing the repatriation of Chen Chang, Li Tai first arranged for an envoy to rush to Jiangdong to inform Chen Baxian of the matter.
Next, Li Tai specially prepared a family banquet to see off the cousins Chen Chang and Chen Xu. During the banquet, the two people were grateful to Tang Gong and seemed very excited. They were probably already thinking about it.
After leaving the prison in Guanzhong, the sky is as high as the birds can fly, and there is indescribable freedom.
Looking at them like this, Li Tai couldn't help but wonder in his heart that in a few years, when they are led back to Guanzhong as people who have subjugated their country, will they think of the joyful thoughts they had when they parted today?
After the banquet, Li Tai arranged for Wu Mingche to lead a thousand elite soldiers to escort Chen Chang and his party out of Wuguan southward, all the way to Jiangdong.
At this time, the mobilization of personnel and materials among the various states and counties in the Western Wei Dynasty was also in full swing, and people, horses, money and food from all parties were continuously transported to Tongzhou.
The mobilization of troops was more efficient than the transportation of materials. In just ten days, more than 100,000 troops had gathered in Tongzhou.
These 100,000 troops are only those who have been included in this recruitment sequence, and do not include those who stayed behind. Such a large-scale mobilization is also a big test for the people of the Bafu. From the arrangement of the route, the army
From the planning of the period to the setting up of the camp and the supply of food and grass, we must work hard and not dare to neglect.
The mobilization of a war does not only test military construction. If the administrative side cannot provide full cooperation, then even if the troops are reluctantly gathered, the army may not be able to carry out a long-distance campaign.
Probably the masses paid too much attention to this, and instead used too much force. The specific manifestation was that the speed and efficiency of the army and supplies greatly exceeded Li Tai's prediction.
It should be noted that this was also the first time for him to experience the dispatch of personnel and materials of such intensity and scale. Although he had made predictions based on past experience and data, the process was extremely smooth because of the hard work of the masses, and the goals of different stages of the recruitment task were achieved.
Much ahead of his estimate.
This brings up a question: whether to leave and when?
Although Sima Xiaonan, the governor of Northern Yuzhou, surrendered this time, in fact Heluo was not the main battlefield as Li Tai expected, but he needed Northern Qi to regard Heluo as the main battlefield for the next battle.
Northern Yuzhou is located in the Northern Qi Dynasty east of Heluo. If you want to coordinate and receive it, you must go directly to Heluo with a large army. This is the most basic and normal idea. The last battle of Mangshan was fought because of this.
.Furthermore, Li Tai had a brilliant record in Heluo, with almost no defeats. Now that he is recruiting a large number of National Middle School A-level soldiers, he will inevitably have to fight in Heluo again!
Not only ordinary people, but also many subordinate officials in the Bafu who are not involved in confidential matters, also believe that this big war must be to plot Heluo again, and may be used to recapture the old capital of Luoyang and occupy it for a long time.
As for Northern Qi Middle School, this view must be generally held. People's understanding of things comes first from experience. For people and events that have not been seen before, even if they have imagination, it is difficult to gain a universal recognition.
In particular, the blows and bruises Li Tai brought to the Eastern Wei and Northern Qi in Heluo are impressive, so most people should follow this inertia and make assumptions about the problem.
What Li Tai wanted was such an effect. He put pressure on Northern Qi by recruiting soldiers on a large scale from the country, thus forcing Northern Qi to invest a large amount of military power in Heluo to prepare for war. At this time, he would launch an attack from other directions.
Naturally, the Northern Qi army would be put into a passive position.
Although the Jinyang soldiers of the Northern Qi Dynasty were still strong soldiers and generals, other aspects were not optimistic.
First of all, the previous battle across the river to attack Jiankang destroyed a large number of fresh troops in Henan, Huainan and other places.
Secondly, the heavy labor in these years has also greatly consumed the national power of the Northern Qi Dynasty. Although there have been no large-scale wars in the past two years, the Great Wall in the northern border of the Northern Qi Dynasty is still being built and reinforced, and Jinyang, Yecheng and other places in the country are also
A large-scale construction project was carried out to build palaces and gardens, and buildings such as Santai in Yecheng were always in use and consumed people's resources.
Under such circumstances, if the main force of the Northern Qi Dynasty carries out a stressful rush for reinforcements, their combat effectiveness will inevitably be greatly reduced. If any personnel rifts and conflicts are exposed as a result, it will be even more distressed.
Of course, it was impossible for Li Tai to publicize such a strategic concept to everyone. In order to confuse his opponents, he even deliberately carried out some operations that disrupted judgment.
For example, the forward troops were sent to Tongguan first, and the military road along the Weihan line was built and supplies were provided along the way. Of course, the most important thing was to delay the official departure of the troops through the recruitment process.
He deliberately set the time for the expedition to be one month. One month was enough time for Northern Qi to increase its troops in Heluo and complete the defense. Even if Northern Qi had doubts about this in the later period, it would not be possible because of an unfounded guess.
The completed defensive line layout was also dismantled.
But now, because the subordinates of the Bafu group are all as excited as chicken blood, it only took only ten days to complete most of the recruitment tasks. These guys worked overtime to complete the tasks, and they are probably still preparing for the reception.
They were rewarded, but they didn't know that being so active would cause flaws in Tang Gong's plan to confuse the enemy.
For Li Tai, this can be regarded as a relatively happy trouble. On the one hand, he is happy and proud that the junior high school has such mobilization efficiency, but on the other hand, he has to find a way to cover up the mobilization progress.
Fortunately, for such a large-scale military dispatch, it would be difficult for ordinary people to accurately judge the specific mobilization progress without mastering the key core data reports. If even such secrets could be leaked, then Li Tai would no longer have to worry about it.
After doing these operations, just wash your neck and wait for Bei Qi to play Assassin's Creed with him.
In fact, the current military mobilization is to a large extent a covert operation, and the real tactics and strategies that Li Tai wants to implement have been laid out a long time ago.
When he first visited Hedong, he gave instructions to use his feudal wealth and money to dredge the canals and waterways in Hedong. In addition to Yongfeng Canal, a canal related to the salt industry, dredging of another waterway in Hedong was also carried out.
A lot of renovation and dredging were carried out to ensure the smooth flow of water transportation.
Over the past two years or so, the trade between Fen and Jiang has become more and more prosperous. Through the smuggling trade on these borders, on the one hand, the trophies captured in the previous battles of the Western Wei Dynasty can be realized and profited, and on the other hand, it can strengthen the supply of goods to the Northern Qi Dynasty.
personnel penetration.
At the same time, there is another more important role, which is to establish a logistics and warehousing system that can be converted to military use at any time through these commercial activities.
Generally, in such a large-scale military operation, it is difficult to carry out sudden advance and retreat, thousands of miles of surprise operations, even if the troops are able to execute orders and prohibitions, and have super strong execution ability for various military orders.
However, with so many people advancing and retreating, a series of preparations such as the arrangement of roads, the search for water sources along the way, and the supply of food and grass must be made well before the army sets off. Otherwise, an army of hundreds of thousands will be without food or water at all times.
, not to mention whether it can win the battle, whether it can return as an organization is still a question.
Since Li Tai's patrol to the east of Hedong, the Western Wei Dynasty continued to expand the city garrison along Fenqu. While pushing the defense line outward, the Northern Qi border officers and soldiers were addicted to the huge profits in the border market, and built a city under their noses.
A storage system, and some of the warehouses store considerable amounts of military rations and equipment.
This approach was of course a bit risky. Once the Northern Qi army invaded and occupied these cities, garrison and warehouses, and seized these supplies, they would also be alert to the Western Wei Dynasty's big plot in this direction.
But the damage caused by a powerful opponent is far less than that of a pig teammate. Wang Wecan of Changle, who was in charge of Jinzhou in the Northern Qi Dynasty, in order to ensure that smuggling in this city can continue, strictly prohibited his soldiers from taking the initiative to provoke, even even
The Western Wei Dynasty could provoke small-scale conflicts and frictions in order to desensitize them and maintain a tolerant attitude.
A few days later, Li Tai went to the Chaoban River Defense Camp in person and secretly summoned Wei Xiaokuan, who was guarding the jade wall. After the meeting, he directly asked Wei Xiaokuan: "According to what the general sees, how confident is it of taking Jinzhou directly at the moment?"
"Jinzhou is an important town for thieves. Even if we ignore the Zhengping and other places in the north of Fen, we still have the city garrison and defense on both sides of Fen. We still need to clear out several areas. Moreover, the city of Baima City in Pingyang is divided into several levels, and each has its own subordinates.
Each of its prefectures, prefectures, towns, and other prefectures has its own administration, and each of them is in charge. Even if there is a leak in one place, it can be quickly repaired elsewhere. If you want to pull it out quickly, the difficulty is really not small."
Wei Xiaokuan was also a master of espionage. When Tang Gong proposed such an idea last year, he stepped up his penetration and spying on Jinzhou. He talked about the streets and alleys in Jinzhou city so well. And it was precisely because of his understanding.
He was very careful, so he was not very confident in conquering Jinzhou quickly.
Jinzhou is not as single-functional as Northern Yuzhou. It is a large town in Linfen. There are more than 20,000 military personnel engaged in garrison work alone. These personnel are under the jurisdiction of different generals. Although Wei Can, the governor of Jinzhou, is incompetent,
, but still did not lose the cooperation of personnel to correct mistakes. Even if he wanted to imitate Sima to eliminate difficulties and directly occupy the city and surrender to the enemy, he could not do it.
Wei Xiaokuan took out a map of the defense layout around Jinzhou and continued his analysis: "After the city garrison in Jinzhou is defeated, it may not be necessary to stay. If you want to besiege the city, you will need at least 30,000 people. If you want to capture Jinzhou,
, success does not come with speed, and it is especially necessary to cut off all the routes for reinforcements. The Queshu Valley in the north, Thousand Miles of Path and other passages need to be divided into troops and garrisoned..."