The first thousand two hundred and seventy-seventh section before the war (1)
Li Guang led everyone and left Kuangping and continued northward. In the afternoon and evening of the same day, they arrived at Yangduwei Station, the largest and most important former enemy fortress in Yuyang County and the most important in the northeast of Yuyang.
The names of Yaoyang Duwei and Yuyang counties are the same, both originating from the river.
In the south of Yaoyang Fortress, Yaoyang Water flows in front of the fortress, forming a natural moat. Therefore, the Yan people chose to build the city here.
At the same time, Fortress Yang is backed by the Chaoshan Mountains, and the tide flows out of the mountains. Basically, it is impossible for enemies from the south to attack Yaoyang.
In addition, Yaoyangsai and Baitan, another important town in Yuyang, are horns with each other.
In the vast mountainous area between Yaoshui and Rushui, the enemy can only choose to attack either Yaoyang or Baitan.
This will immediately free the defenders of the other fortress.
At that time, Yan Guobing relied on this trick to fool the Donghu people.
If you hit Yang, the white sandalwood army can go along the wet water to stab the chrysanthemums. If you hit Baitan, if you hit Yang, the defenders will go out and ask for water. If you go straight, you will still be in a state of ecstasy.
However, now, the biggest problems in these areas are insufficient troops and insufficient food.
And the most important thing is that they are building the outer fortress of the Great Wall.
Without the cover of Yanshan Mountain, there is no cover from the Great Wall.
Therefore, the enemy is likely to ignore them and attack Huayan and Huixi on the Great Wall.
But unfortunately, these two places cannot be given up.
Because, through observation throughout the day today, Li Guang has understood why the Han army from the Yan and Qin Dynasties to this day has set up heavy troops in this area outside the Zaoxiang Great Wall.
The reason is that the Great Wall was built to attack the strong and defend the weak.
If we abandon these two places, Xixi and Huayan will actually lose the space to move around, and will be suffocated to death by the enemy!
But with this place, the entire line of defense comes alive.
The Han army departing from Qixi and Huayansai can move in the vast mountainous areas safely and attack any enemy they want to attack.
Moreover, if we abandon the defense of these two places, it will pose a huge threat to the defenders of Xixi, Huayan and even Yuyang fortress.
There are no more Yang plugs and white sand plugs to control the tide mountains, tides and water, and then wet the water.
The Huns could take advantage of the river and drive straight in.
The Xiongnu's baggage didn't even need people to transport it.
They could just set up a raft upstream and let the raft float downstream. Who knows how much effort they would save!
After Li Guang took a tour, he had some ideas in his mind.
He said to everyone: "Mountains and rivers are powerful in shape, and the Yang can be defended but cannot be defended!"
"Be prepared to evacuate the people in Yaoyang and Baitan, and all retreat to Pinggu County after Guangping!" Li Guang made a decisive decision: "Start the evacuation now, mobilize the army, go deep into the village pavilions, and help the people evacuate!"
"At the same time, prepare firewood and grease, and be ready to burn the city at any time!"
"General!" Wei Yang, the governor of Yaoyang, immediately became anxious: "You can't abandon Yaoyang and Baitan!"
Zhang Feng, the magistrate of Baitan County and the captain of Baitan, even got red-eyed: "The land of our ancestors must not be abandoned! If the general abandons Baitan, please step over my corpse!"
For the Yan people, the love of their homeland is the most difficult thing to let go of.
This is especially true for these officers who chose to stay in this miserable place.
If they had not loved their hometown deeply and were reluctant to leave the mountains and rivers of their homeland, they would have gone to Anton long ago.
Anton's protective army, various settlement regiments, and the Korean state were all eager for talents.
But they were unmoved and chose to stay.
This Yuyang land is barren, cold and difficult.
However, this is their hometown, the place where their parents and ancestors live, and the place where their ancestors have their ancestral halls.
Giving up your hometown means giving up the protection of your ancestors’ mausoleums and clan ancestral halls.
As long as they thought that the tombs of their ancestors and clans might be harassed or even destroyed by the Huns, they would feel so uncomfortable that they wanted to die!
Even Liang Xian, the captain of Yuyang Fortress, said: "General, why don't you think about it again? You know, if you want to defend the Great Wall, you must defend Yaoyang and Baitan. This is a lesson passed down from generation to generation!"
"If you lose Yaoyang and Baitan, the Huixi and Huashan fortresses of the Great Wall will become a living target for the Huns cavalry..." Liang Xian analyzed sincerely: "General, please think twice!"
Li Guang nodded and said: "Of course I know the importance of Yaoyang and Baitan. I have also read the map and old files. I am not the kind of person who ignores reality..."
When Li Guang was serving as a guard in Chang'an, every time he went to court, the person sitting in front of him was Yuhou Luanbu, the patriarch of the Han family.
As a senior, Luan Bu once told him some common sense about Yuyang, Shanggu and Youbeiping.
Luan Bu's evaluation of the Yanji Great Wall has always been that the strong in attack is weak in defense!
Now, after seeing the Great Wall and the geographical features and city conditions outside the Great Wall with his own eyes, Li Guang has understood the meaning of what Luan Bu said back then.
He looked at the crowd and said: "I said, Yang can defend but cannot defend...the reason is...the number of captives who are attacking this time is not 10,000 or 20,000, but at least 50,000 or more!"
"There may not be so many men in Yuyang combined..."
"The Qilu Cavalry Vanguard must be full of vigor!"
"The Art of War says: Make a strong effort, then it will weaken, and then it will be exhausted!"
"My idea is to avoid the Xiongnu's sharp edge and lure the enemy deeper..." Li Guang said with a smile: "Then, our army is here to give the Huns a hard blow!"
Li Guang held up the map and pointed heavily at the mountainous area where the water and the tide meet: "One bite will eat up ten thousand Huns!"
"Gentlemen, hold on to the city. We may have to face the sharpness of the main force of the Xiongnu. Countless comrades and brothers will die in battle, and their deaths will be meaningless!" Li Guang said: "Watch a purely defensive war.
, this is not possible, and it is impossible to defend the Yuyang Great Wall by defense!"
"Not to mention this place, even Yanmen Pass cannot be defended by pure defense..."
Yanmen Pass is the most important pass in the world!
It is also a well-known fortress.
However, in the past fifty years, Yanmen Pass has been attacked by the Huns several times.
Not to mention Yanmen Pass, even big cities like Taiyuan and Jinyang fell to the Huns in the Battle of Pingcheng.
Even in the past, the senior leaders of the Han army knew that they could not defend themselves by relying on defense.
The enemy must be eliminated or defeated in the field to defend the city!
Otherwise, no matter how strong the city is, it will fall due to siege.
Moreover, the losses in the city defense battle were too great!
It’s all about taking human lives!
Today, among the Han army, which is dominated by offense, few people think about defense.
It is a fact recognized by the world that defense cannot bring victory, it can only bring fearless losses.
Similar to the past between the Han and Hungarians, hundreds of thousands of Hedgehogs gathered around the Great Wall, staring at each other. No one could do anything about anyone else's affairs, and no one wanted to come back again.
What's more, the current governor of Yuyang County is still Li Guang!
And it’s Li Guang in his prime!
When Li Guang was in his prime, even in an era when the cavalry strength between the Han and Huns was completely disproportionate, he still dared to fight in the field with the Huns.
So much so that Gongsun Kunxie of Dahonglu at that time wanted to write to Emperor Jing: Li Guang is so talented that there are countless people in the world. He is so proud of his ability that he will fight with the captives many times for fear of his death.
At that time, Li Guang was already confident enough to dare to fight in the field with the Huns, and to engage in cavalry and shooting battles with the Huns' cavalry. Moreover, he often took the initiative to find trouble for the Huns.
He was even deliberately provocative, so bold that he dared to shoot the Hun vultures with only a few hundred men.
His courage is naturally great, and his appetite is also super strong.
Now, he came to Yuyang, and it was at a time when the balance of power between Han and Huns was completely tilted towards the Han Dynasty.
Naturally, he would not foolishly gather a large number of troops on the Great Wall and the cities outside the Great Wall to fight a conventional war of attrition against the Huns.
That's not his character, nor is it something stupid he would choose to do!
"How many cavalry does Yuyang have at present?" Li Guang asked.
"General, there are less than two thousand..." Yuyang Captain Liang Xian said with shame.
As a frontier fortress, the number of cavalry in Yuyang is indeed a shame for China today.
But there is nothing we can do about it!
The people of Yuyang can't even have enough to eat, so how can they find the financial resources and energy to support the cavalry?
These two thousand cavalry were the funds and horses that the Yuyang people got back after they went about their business in Chang'an.
These funds were almost misappropriated by King Yan...
All in all, talking about it brings tears to my eyes!
"How many soldiers are there who can ride horses?" Li Guang asked again.
"Reporting back to the general, there are about five thousand soldiers who can ride horses..." Weiyang, the capital of Yangyang, said proudly. Yuyang has a vast territory, few people, and is still poor. However, Yuyang also has its own advantages, that is, it is located at the frontier.
, almost everyone is practicing riding and shooting.
The powerful disciples in the local area all have good skills!
Moreover, the quality of Yuyang's soldiers is very high.
Otherwise, Anton wouldn’t be trying so hard to poach him!
"That's enough!" Li Guang slapped his thigh and said, "Gather all the soldiers who can ride horses together. I will take care of the matter of the horses!"
Others were a little surprised when they heard it.
If you want to form another 3,000 cavalry, you need to add at least 5,000 horses!
This is not easy!
Not to mention, war horses also need equipment. In a hurry, no one could imagine where they could get so many weapons and horses.
But Li Guang patted his chest and said, "Everyone, just go and prepare!"
The issue of war horses and ordnance is indeed very troublesome.
But for Li Guang, it was nothing more than trouble.
As far as Li Guang knew, after the Battle of Mayi, the emperor opened horse farms in Zhao and Yan to raise horses.
He had served as a guard and had some friendship with the servants and people from the Shaofu Yamen, so on the way here, he had already sent people to these horse farms to adjust the horses.
When he arrived at Yuyang, more than 7,000 well-equipped horses from Zhao and Yan's horse farms were already on the way.
This is the benefit of connections!
But Li Guang didn't want to talk about this matter with everyone. He didn't want to tell the people of Yuyang how wide his connections were and how powerful he was. That would be unhelpful to unity, let alone fighting. (~^~)
