To be fair, Zhao Hongrun's plan was not a profound one. It can be summed up in just a few words.
Make a sound in the east and attack in the west!
Defeat them one by one!
It is undeniable that Mengshan is a key strategic point. If this place can be captured, it will be very helpful for Zhao Hongrun to attack Xiangcheng in the future.
But the problem is that Mengshan Chu camp is difficult to attack.
First of all, Chu general Doulian made the Chu camp in Mengshan impregnable, making it impossible for the Wei army to conquer this fortress-like military camp in a short period of time.
Secondly, on the south side of Mengshan, there are Chu generals Nanmenjue sent by Xiangcheng and 40,000 Chu troops from Nanmenhuai to support them. If Zhao Hongrun concentrates on attacking Mengshan, the final result will be:
If the Mengshan Chu camp cannot be captured, our own Wei army will be attacked by the Nanmen brothers.
And this is not the most deadly. The most deadly is the tens of thousands of Longji Mountain Chu troops stationed at the original headquarters of the Shangshui Army at this moment, led by Chu General Nanmen Yang.
Once Nanmen Yang leads his army to the vicinity of Mengshan, the Chu army in this area will surge to 100,000 people. Including the Chu army in Xiangcheng, this will be more than twice the total strength of the Wei army.
If these more than 100,000 Chu troops are just peasant soldiers, then there is nothing to worry about. But the problem is, these more than 100,000 Chu troops are all regular troops of Chu State!
At that time, these hundreds of thousands of Chu troops will surround the Wei army. Even Zhao Hongrun may not have any good way to reverse the disadvantage.
Therefore, Zhao Hongrun must destroy the intention of these Chu armies to "siege the Wei army" within this tight time before Nanmen Yang led his army.
Since Mengshan couldn't conquer it in a short period of time, he simply turned to the two Chu generals Nanmen Jue and Nanmen Huai to open up the situation.
Therefore, Zhao Hongrun sent the Qingya people to harass the Mengshan Chu camp and create chaos inside. At the same time, he sent thousands of merchant navy troops to support the Qingya people. This was not to conquer the Mengshan Chu camp, but to trick the Mengshan Chu generals into fighting.
Lian quickly led his troops back to help.
Once Dou Lian leads his army to withdraw and return to Mengshan's aid, Wei general Xu Yin will be able to free up his hands and let the Fenxing army join the ranks of besieging the Nanmen brothers.
This allowed the three Wei armies to concentrate their forces and defeat the 40,000 Xiangcheng Chu troops in Nanmen Jue and Nanmen Huai first.
This is the secret of war: it is better to cut off one finger than to hurt the enemy ten times. Concentrate limited forces to attack one enemy point in order to break the deadlock in a short time.
Of course, regardless of the interpretation of this move of "making a sound in the east and attacking in the west", in fact, if the Wei army at the foot of Mengshan Mountain was not commanded by Xu Yin, the general of Fenxing Army, Zhao Hongrun would not dare to arrange it like this.
Because this requires a very high level of tacit understanding and Xu Yin needs to be able to understand and understand the real target that Zhao Hongrun wants to attack. Otherwise, if he were to be a foolish commander, Zhao Hongrun would attack Nan as planned.
Menjue and Nanmenhuai were gone, but here the Fenxing Army and the Yanling Army mistakenly thought that Zhao Hongrun was going to attack Mengshan when they saw the fire in Mengshan, and foolishly led their troops to attack.
It's so depressing.
However, it turns out that Xu Yin is worthy of being a veteran who has been in Fenxing for more than ten years. After some thinking and weighing, he immediately grasped Zhao Hongrun's true intention. After Chu General Doulian was cleverly deceived back to Mengshan by Zhao Hongrun, he immediately
The Fenxing army was ordered to turn around and attack the Xiangcheng Chu army of the Nanmen brothers. "PS: When writing this plot, I suddenly thought of the author's previous game of Three Kingdoms.