"Commander, the Zhejiang bandits have launched another attack. The brothers have suffered heavy casualties. If the reinforcements don't come again, I'm afraid that although Jiangning is strong, it won't be able to survive for a few more days!"
"Commander, why haven't the reinforcements arrived yet?"
Facing the louder voices of his subordinates, Cao Rui, the Imperial Envoy, the Minister of War, and the Grand Marshal of Southeast Thieves, shook his head helplessly, yes, why haven't reinforcements appeared yet?
"Commander, Daniel, Daniel is back!"
Cao Rui was overjoyed when he heard this. He turned around and saw that the bull was covered in dust and could not walk. He was helped to the front by someone. He started crying before he could say anything: "Commander, Lu Ming, that guy Lu Ming."
You will refuse to send troops even to the death!"
"What?" Cao Rui's expression changed drastically: "Lu Ming refuses to send troops? Have you seen Lu Ming?"
"Lu Ming went to Luoyang according to the order and has not returned yet, but his subordinates are looking for excuses to shirk him!"
Daniel wiped his tears, his face full of anger: "When I went to Lu Ming's camp, I saw that his troops were well-equipped. There were dozens of large ballistae and no less than two hundred small ballistae.
But no matter how much I begged, those people actually said they wanted to mobilize Ding Lin's troops to rescue us in Jiangning!" Lu Ming is the commander of the Luzhou Guard, and Ding Lin is just a guard commander under him. Although Ding Lin is far away from Jiangning,
Recently, there were only more than 5,000 people. At this time, the Zhejiang bandit army gathered around Jiangning was nearly 300,000, and there were only more than 5,000 people. Even if the Yanyun Guards came, they would not be able to please them, let alone Anhui's Luzhou Guards.
"Oh, I see." Cao Rui was surprisingly not very angry, but said calmly: "Actually, whether there are reinforcements or not, Jiangning still has to defend. Everyone, don't gather here, go and prepare to deal with the Zhejiang bandits.
An attack! We still have an army of 100,000, and if we stick to Jiangning, we have no chance of winning." After saying that, everyone walked away without thinking about themselves, hands behind their backs.
In fact, Cao Rui regretted it very much at this time. He felt that he had made some mistakes in judging the situation, so he rashly came to Jiangning. Jiangning is the most important town in Jiangnan, and its strategic position is very important. Now Jiangdong and Jiangnan are almost completely lost, and all the central armies have been defeated.
Defeated again, he originally planned to concentrate his forces to defeat the enemy in one fell swoop. Unexpectedly, before the troops could be gathered, they were defeated one by one. The slowness of the Central Army's march made Cao Cao, who had seen Ying Yangwei's thousands-mile marching speed.
Rui did not expect that only then did he realize that none of the new armies he had seen this year was weak. Even if the new armies behind him were far behind the Yingyang Guards, they could not be compared to what he was commanding now.
For the Central Army, it is really powerful. At least those new armies can almost immediately set off within a few hours as long as they receive the order. However, these senior men of the Central Army actually did not have three or five days to do so.
It’s really the most ridiculous thing in the world that you “haven’t packed your luggage yet”
In fact, although Cao Rui was not very good at commanding large armies in battle, his ability to defend the city was pretty good. He arranged Jiangning City's trusted generals to guard each city gate according to the method in the military book, and gathered civil and military personnel to defend the city in sections.
He led his own troops to garrison the east gate of Jiangning City. The walls were high and the city had sufficient troops and supplies. He felt that even with the current situation, if he just stood there and waited for help, there was still a glimmer of hope. The only trouble was whether it would happen.
There are reinforcements
The Holy One ordered soldiers from Henan, Anhui and other provinces to come to the rescue. He also ordered Song Cheng, the commander of the Hubei Wuchang Guards, to send all four guards left in Wuchang to Jiangning. However, when the Zhejiang bandit troops arrived at the city of Jiangning, they immediately adopted the strategy of siege and reinforcements.
The strategy of the battle was to first defeat the reinforcements from the east of Anhui, more than 20,000 people, and annihilate most of them. Then they defeated the reinforcements from Jiangxi, more than 10,000 people. The other reinforcements from all walks of life were frightened by the news, and they stopped moving and stood on the sidelines.
Cao Rui had always advocated concentrating his forces and then encircling and annihilating the Zhejiang bandit army. But now he was surrounded by the Zhejiang bandit army and was trapped in an isolated city. At the most difficult time, he felt that the only place he could rely on was Lu Mingxiao, the commander of the Luzhou Guard in Anhui Province. However,
Now that even Lu Ming is unwilling to send troops, who can he count on?
The Central Army's combat effectiveness was low and its behavior was inappropriate, while the Zhejiang Bandit Army performed very well. Although the army was large in number and its combat effectiveness varied, from the perspective of military use, it was actually quite orderly. For example, the current siege of Jiangning, Ouyang Cuo
The "former enemy commander-in-chief" arranged it quite well.
The military book holds that in a siege of a city, even if there are superior forces surrounding the enemy city on all sides, a gap should be left to show the enemy a way to escape, so as to shake the enemy's determination to hold on to the fortified city and wait for him to fight for a way to escape.
By attacking like this, you can not only capture the enemy's city without attacking it, but also annihilate the enemy's effective strength. This "necessary barrier to encircle an army" is one of the "eight principles of using troops" discussed by Sun Tzu.
The idea that the enemy must leave a gap is reasonable under the current conditions of backward siege technology and equipment and the difficulty of attacking fortresses. However, if we always advocate encircling the enemy no matter when, where and under what conditions,
A gap must be left. This is biased and too absolute, and is contrary to the military purpose of the war of preserving oneself and destroying the enemy. If we say that "the enemy must be surrounded" as part of the siege operation, to induce the enemy to leave.
It is a strategic means to fortify the city and annihilate it in the midst of movement, which is a desirable move.
For example, in the 11th year of Jian'an (AD 206) of the Eastern Han Dynasty, when Cao Cao led his troops to siege Huguan, he won the victory after correctly applying the guiding principle of "the enemy must be surrounded". At that time, Huguan was defended by Yuan Shao's nephew.
Under the control of the army, due to the strong defense of the city, Cao Cao sent his troops to attack the city but failed, so he threatened that on the day the city was captured, all the soldiers and civilians defending the city would be trapped and killed, in an attempt to intimidate and destabilize the Japanese troops defending the city. However, the result was counterproductive.
The continuous attack lasted for three months. At this time, Cao Ren, the general of the southern expedition, believed that Cao Cao's approach of threatening "every city is trapped" was unwise. Not only would this not force the enemy to surrender in Kaicheng, on the contrary, it would only encourage the enemy to defend the city to the death.
Determination of the city. In view of the actual situation of Huguan, "the city is solid and has plenty of food. If you attack it, your soldiers will be injured, but if you defend it, it will be delayed." He put forward the suggestion that "the trap door must be revealed when sieging the city, so open a way for him to survive." After hearing this, Cao Cao was completely
Adopting this, he changed the tactics of forceful attack and hard fight, leaving a gap to show the enemy a trap to shake their hearts, and soon forced the defenders to surrender. Cao Jun did not attack and occupied Huguan.
But now Ouyang Cuo has also adopted this method. It's just that Ouyang Cuo's encirclement of three is missing one, but the direction of the gap is southward to Jiangning and to the north is the Yangtze River. A short walk northwest of the Yangtze River will lead to Anhui. Although the east side is
It is controlled by the Zhejiang Bandit Army, but as long as you reach Zhenjiang, break through the defense and break out to the north, you can escape. As for going west, it is more convenient. The strength of the Zhejiang Bandit Army in the west is not strong. If the Central Army has a hundred thousand troops
The road goes west, it is indeed possible to break through the siege and escape into Jiangxi
However, Ouyang Cuo would not do such a stupid thing. He let Cao Rui run in three directions. The opening he opened was in the south. If Cao Rui really led his troops to run south, he would have run into the base camp of the Zhejiang bandit army, the imperial court.
At that time, Zhejiang and Jiangsu had a very bad reputation, and the Zhejiang bandits had the Qinglong Sect, a powerful weapon to confuse the people. Once Cao Rui really fled south, he would inevitably fall into the vast sea of "people's war" and be unable to extricate himself, and the tragic ending was inevitable
However, after all, a three-dimensional siege with one missing is a siege with three missing one. Without that opening, the soldiers and people in the city will have a thought, thinking that these people who still have a chance to escape can think of any strategy.
As long as he finds this opportunity, he will desperately want to seize it. Even though Cao Rui tried his best to explain to the army and people in the city that the three missing ones in the city were a ruse of the enemy and should not be believed, but no one would listen?
He would not just watch the opportunity to escape slip away, so more and more people fled in Jiangning City, and more and more people fled, which affected the morale of the army. In the end, even the soldiers began to flee. Cao Rui
He also vigorously sent people to monitor, but in the end, even the monitoring soldiers began to run away, and Cao Rui realized that he had completely lost control of the situation.
Jiang Ning is really going to be lost, and it will be lost in the hands of Cao Rui
Cao Rui sighed. He didn't know what he should say, and he didn't know who he should hate. Maybe Lu Ming didn't come, which was worthy of his hatred. But he also knew that Lu Ming was actually from Qiu Linjiang. Don't look at him.
He is from a famous family. In fact, his famous family is a fake one. He won it after he became an official. To put it more simply, he married into a certain minister's family, and then he was able to have the Holy Spirit give him a single name. He was actually very happy in his heart.
Clearly, he comes from a poor family
After Qiu Linjiang took office, he seldom directly took charge of military affairs, but because of the protection law, he still got to know many military generals. Among them, Lu Ming admired Qiu Linjiang very much and even worshiped him without knowing why.
After joining Qiu Linjiang's family, he followed the orders of the New Law Sect from then on.
Cao Rui was naturally a member of the old party, so after Lu Ming, who thought he was a member of the new party, heard the news about Cao Rui's request for help, he simply ran to Luoyang. He claimed to be asking the emperor for an order to send troops south to put down the rebellion, but in fact he was hiding.
Cao Rui, otherwise, Cao Rui is the commander-in-chief of thieves in the three provinces, and he must be forcibly transferred to the south, and he has no legitimate reason to refuse.
Cao Rui knew what Lu Ming was thinking. He didn't bother to hate Lu Ming at this time, but he still couldn't understand how the Central Army's combat effectiveness had become so bad. At that time, he saw the Leng family's continuous defeats in suppressing the Xichuan rebels.
, Cao Rui also despised the combat effectiveness of the Leng family's army. He felt that the so-called flying ax army of the Leng family was just mediocre and was really in vain. But now after the Central Army fought several battles, Cao Rui realized that Leng's army
That’s pretty good at that level!
But why is the Yun family's army in Northern Xinjiang so good at fighting? Sixty thousand people defeated Goryeo. It would be great if this fighting power could be used to suppress rebellion...
It's a pity, how can the Holy Emperor be so shameless as to ask the Yun family to send troops?
