Guanghan County is located in the northernmost part of Shu, with Shiwanda Mountain to the east, Yangzhou to the west, and Anzhou to the north.
According to the battle plan submitted by Han Zhao to Ning Yongnian, 300,000 counter-rebellion troops would enter Shu from Anzhou to attack Shu.
This is the shortest route to Yuanzhou and the fastest route to Shuzhou City.
Now, although Liang Zhen has led his troops to Guanghan in advance, Ning Yongnian has not changed his combat strategy because of this.
On the one hand, based on the movements of the counter-rebellion army, anyone with some military knowledge can tell that Han Zhao is preparing to launch an attack from Guanghan County, so it is far from raising suspicions of "whether military information has been leaked."
On the other hand, if they choose to attack from other directions, the counter-rebellion army will need to detour through Yangzhou, which will delay nearly ten days at least.
Moreover, once the army changes its attack direction, Liang Zhen can also change its deployment position.
It is always easier and faster to dispatch 60,000 people than 300,000 people, so there is no need for Ning Yongnian to do anything extra.
Anyway, no matter where the battle is, the ratio is 300,000 to 60,000. Once a war breaks out, no one believes how long the Shu army can resist.
The city of Shuzhou will be reached within ten days and the city will be destroyed within a month.
These are the two time periods Ning Yongnian set for Han Zhao.
Han Zhao also issued a military order for this purpose, using his own head as guarantee, vowing to attack Weiyang Palace within a month.
Both of them are full of confidence in this...at least that's what they show.
Needless to say why Han Zhao is so "confident".
But for Ning Yongnian, he didn't really think everything was foolproof.
Because the intelligence recently sent back from Shuzhou has confirmed that a Shu army of 10,000 people suddenly disappeared.
He did not follow Liang Zhen to defend Guanghan, nor was he deployed elsewhere.
Although ten thousand people are not many, they may become an uncertain factor on the future battlefield.
More importantly, Dali seems a little restless...
As the king of a country, Ning Yongnian still has a certain intelligence network even though he has lost the "eyes and ears" of Xuanjing Division.
Therefore, many things that happened in Shuzhou and Dali could not escape his eyes.
Not only did he know that Dali would probably send troops to reinforce Shuzhou, but he also knew that the reinforcements would number about 100,000 and would arrive on the battlefield in about half a month.
As a result, the number of Shu troops increased from 60,000 to 160,000... Although it was still nearly half less than the counter-rebellion army, it was still a trouble.
Under normal circumstances, Daning should speed up the march of the counter-rebellion army at this time, fight for a quick victory at any cost, and strive to end the war before the Da Li army arrives in Shuzhou.
Or mobilize more troops from surrounding states and counties in advance to prepare for a protracted war.
However, the strange thing is that Ning Yongnian has not made any redundant arrangements for the time being.
He just told Han Zhao the news that Dali might participate in the war, and then asked the latter to continue to implement the previous plan without adjusting his tactics.
Knowing that the enemy's reinforcements are about to arrive, but making no corresponding preparations.
The reason may be that Ning Yongnian's current attention is mostly focused on the Fengyuan war, and he has no time to estimate that there are too many in Shuzhou.
Or, the Daning Emperor has a deeper plan.
Just like the previous "Wonzhou City Massacre", he is trying to get more.
Of course, Bai Youheng's ability to "massacre a city" only occurs once in sixty years, so Shuzhou will not repeat the mistakes of Yuanzhou City.
But no one except himself knows what Ning Yongnian wants to do.
It can only be said that the first head-to-head confrontation between Wei Changtian and Ning Yongnian will not be as easy as both parties had planned.
This is true for both the former and the latter.
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September 30th.
Guanghan County.
"Hurry up! Move quickly!"
"Transport all this rammed earth to the north of the city!"
"Captain Zhang, why did your scout battalion come back so late today?!"
"Take inventory of the ordnance! Distribute it to each corps camp early tomorrow morning!"
"Report! The 500,000 arrows shipped from Shuzhou City have arrived outside the city!"
"..."
Chaos of horse hooves, rapid footsteps, rising dust, soldiers in blue armor running in formation...
Compared with the still calm and peaceful Shuzhou City, this small Guanghan County town is now full of tension before the war.
Liang Zhen led the Shu army to arrive here two days ago and immediately took over all authority from the county government, and the entire county has since entered a wartime state.
There were few ordinary people on the streets. What came and went were groups of Shu soldiers and carriages carrying large amounts of military supplies.
The city wall, which was not originally very tall, was heightened and widened at a speed visible to the naked eye, and several urn cities rose from the ground to tightly protect the four city gates in the southeast, northwest and northwest.
Young men from every household were recruited as laborers. Although they did not have to go to the front line to fight, they were assigned tasks to ensure the logistical supply of the war...
Although the enemy was 60,000 against 300,000, the attitude of the soldiers and civilians in Guanghan City in preparing for war was very positive, and there was no pessimism at all.
Everyone is doing their own thing according to the orders handed down from level to level, just to give their side a better chance of winning when the war starts.
At the same time, the three people in Shu who were most directly responsible for the outcome of this war were conducting the last tactical deduction before the war in the conference hall.
Guanghan County defense map and surrounding area combat map.
The establishment of 300,000 counter-rebellion troops, and detailed information on the generals of each army.
The court's battle plan that Ning Yongnian nodded and agreed to...
Various map secret texts are stacked beside the huge sand table, and in the sand table are placed small flags of different sizes, roughly estimated to be nearly a hundred.
There are three types of red flags, representing the front, middle and rear parts of the imperial army.
The green flag represents the 60,000 Shu army.
The black flag represents the Ten Thousand Tengu Army.
The yellow flag represents the 100,000 monsters hidden in the 100,000 Mountains, and Qingxian promises that they can be mobilized at any time.
The purple flag represents a thousand "tactical squads" composed of masters of the Tianluo Cult and Freemasonry.
The green flag represents the 100,000 "Green Forest Heroes" who are still gathering at the border of Dali.
Apart from the last item of force that cannot be put into the battlefield for the time being, the actual combat strength currently possessed by the Shu Kingdom is about 200,000 "people". The gap in combat strength is far less than the "one to five" that the outside world thinks.
exaggerate.
If coupled with the huge advantage that the enemy's leader is one of his own...it's no wonder that Wei Changtian has always been very confident about winning this war.
"Swish, swish, swish..."
Various small flags were raised and lowered, Liang Zhen and Chu Xianping frowned, and they were going back and forth in the military drill.
Wei Changtian, on the other hand, was watching attentively from the side.
Then, at a certain moment, he suddenly raised his hand and waved.