Li Siye summoned all his generals in Tianshui City and held the first battle meeting since his eastward march. The meeting place was the government office of the governor of Qinzhou, which was temporarily requisitioned by him to serve as the seat of the Chinese army gate. Duan Xiushi, Feng Changqing, Tian
Zhen, Zang Xiye, Ma Phosphorus, Bai Xiaode, Ashina Chuulu and others entered the hall one after another.
These people automatically sat on the left and right sides according to their positions. Li Siye sat on the top chair, pressed his hands on the armrests and said: "I called you here today to unify my strategic thinking with you. When I make any combat arrangements in the future, you
It’s not that difficult to understand.”
Tian Zhen was confused and said, "Doctor, what is strategic thinking?"
Li Siye frowned, glanced at Tian Zhen, and said to Duan Xiushi: "General Duan, if you understand what strategic thinking is, explain it to him."
Duan Xiushi stood up and looked around at everyone: "Strategy can also refer to strategy, military strategy, and general strategy. It is the overall idea of looking at the world's war situation. Thoughts are ideas. Zhuge Liang proposed dividing the world into three parts during the battle in Longzhong, which is the strategy. Doctor
, I don’t know if what I said is right.”
Li Siye nodded, raised his hand to make him sit down, and said to everyone: "Although you just obey the general's orders and are used to attacking wherever you are told, of course, if you can command a bunch of them and eat a bunch of them, you are already an outstanding general. But I am
Your requirements are higher, the situation on the battlefield is changing rapidly, and it is difficult to communicate military orders. In case you cannot contact me, you must make correct judgments according to my ideas. Think more about it when you are blocked in the future.
What would Dr. Li do when encountering this situation? If we have this kind of tacit understanding, we will naturally be invincible in any battle."
The generals nodded in agreement.
"The meeting is now officially open. What I am talking about is very simple. In fact, it is an unshakable principle. The most basic goal of war is to preserve yourself and destroy the powerful enemy. Remember, preserving yourself comes before destroying the powerful enemy. I want to tell you
The most important thing is to retain your strength. If you really can't destroy the enemy, be sure to do the previous one. You can always avoid the enemy's sharp edge. If you feel that you can't defeat the opponent, retreat when you have to, find a place to hold on, or find someone who can.
Those who have defeated the opponent gather together. May I warn you, killing one thousand enemies and losing eight hundred to yourself? Doesn’t that count as a victory in my eyes? Don’t even think about taking credit for it.”
The generals looked at each other, with a smile on their lips and said nothing.
Li Siye said to Cen Shen who was sitting on the right: "Cen joins the army? When evaluating the military merits of each army in the future? It will be calculated by subtracting one's own losses from the number of enemies killed. The rest will be like gaining when going up to the battlefield, and gaining everything when going down the battle."
As usual."
"Let's talk about my strategic focus now. In the past, we were in Suiyechuan? In Congling, or fighting the Tubo people in Hexi? We mostly regarded siege of cities and territories as the ultimate goal. From now on, the ultimate goal has changed? Then
It is to eliminate the enemy's effective strength, join forces and combine forces, and destroy them all. The people An Lushan relies on are just the hundreds of thousands of warriors he has trained in Fanyang for more than ten years? There are also soldiers recruited from the original Turks.
Hu Qi? These are the capital for his rebellion. The so-called Fan Yang's lair is just a habitat."
"With this understanding, think about it again, is it important to regain Chang'an?"
Some of the generals nodded and some shook their heads.
"It's very important, but it's not as important as destroying powerful enemies. As long as we wipe out all the elite forces like An Lushan in one battle after another? Do we still need to rack our brains to recover Chang'an? It will naturally return to the hands of the imperial court. So.
The same is true for us, don’t care about the gains and losses of one city or one place! What we need is to use 150,000 heads to pile up our victory."
The generals stood up from their beds one after another, knelt on one knee and crossed their hands and said, "The doctor has made a wise decision, and we deeply admire him."
Li Siye stood up with a horizontal sword in his hand and said to the generals: "Now that the general strategy has been decided, I now declare that Duan Xiushi's Han navy will be the vanguard? Tian Zhen led the Tiaodang camp and Modao camp behind? Zang Xiye and
The Chinese army marched together to Fufeng County in Qizhou, and the next day they captured Dashan Pass and occupied Chencang."
"No," Tian Zhen asked in surprise: "Don't you care about the gains and losses of the city? Why do you still want to occupy Sanguan and Chencang?"
The crowd burst into laughter, and Li Siye also clapped his hands and smiled: "We don't care, but the traitors do. How can we induce them to take action if we don't make any noise?"
In fact, the geographical location of Dashan Pass is extremely important. It is the throat from Hanzhong to Guanzhong, and Chencang is the springboard for Dashan Pass to enter Guanzhong. Li Siye's preemptive control of Dashan Pass is equivalent to completely isolating the Guanzhong and Hanzhong areas, and Hanzhong
The fifteen prefectures in the region can rest easy, and Li Siye can also use Dashanguan Pass to continuously receive grain and grass supplies from Hanzhong. In the future, Li Heng's court in Lingwu can also receive taxes from Hanzhong and the Jianghuai area."
Zang Xiye, the commander of the Flying Tiger Cavalry, stood up and asked: "Ke Sanguan takes advantage of the favorable terrain and the high and steep mountains. How can we conquer it?"
Li Siye pointed at him and replied: "You lead your cavalry along the Xiao Pass and enter Qiyang County from the Jinghe Passage. I will lead the Chinese army to enter Qiyang County from the Weihe Passage. I will attack the county city in a flanking attack first, and then occupy Chencang to cut off the Dashan Pass guard and Guanzhong."
As a communication channel, let the enemy troops go to Xianyang to report the news, and we will wait for the rest to ambush and kill the reinforcements. After the reinforcements are defeated, I will have a way to break through."
Li Siye issued orders one after another, and everyone crossed their hands and said hello.
Four days later, Zang Xiye led the Flying Tiger Cavalry from the upper reaches of the Jing River, from the river channel in the Liupan Mountain Valley, through the abandoned Xiaoguan to the intersection of the Wei River and the Jing River, detouring to the Famen Temple in Qiyang County, and using
They quickly conquered Fufeng County and occupied Chencang County.
The rebels only deployed 6,000 troops in the county town and Chencang. They encountered the Tang Army's cavalry coming from the north, and the heavy infantry led by Tian Zhen coming from the west. They only lasted for just half a day and were defeated by the cavalry.
The city surrendered.
Li Siye hoarded most of his troops in Chencang, and only sent 20,000 people to challenge in front of Dashan Pass, and blocked the entry and exit roads of Dashan Pass.
Guarding both sides of the Dashan Pass exit and Monk Yuan were the infantry troops led by Tian Zhen. Yan Xiaosi's artillery battalion moved slowly, and was slowly coming under the escort of the rear troops.
In the evening, Tian Zhen began to organize the soldiers to camp, and the army began to relax and no longer focus on the road out of the customs. As soon as the sun set, the valley was the first to get dark, and suddenly two rivers rushed out from the valley.
It was a fast horse. The soldiers were sitting in twos and threes by the river. They quickly ran to pick up their swords and guns to intercept it, but the horse was too fast. Two soldiers drew their crossbows and shot, but they did not hit the messenger.
Tian Zhen sat on the crossbar outside the tent, chewing grass blades in his mouth and cursed: "Just pretend, don't really shoot people to death! From now on! Start setting up hollow arrays along the river bank and the mouth of the valley for training. The enemy's
Reinforcements will arrive in a few days."
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Zhang Tongruan, the rebel guard in Xijing, was sitting in the main hall of Jingzhao Mansion. Below him were generals Li Guiren, An Shouzhong and Tian Qianzhen. At this moment, the three of them were silent, waiting for the guard to speak.
"I have known for a long time that the Hexi Army will go south to Guanzhong, and I have warned you in advance! But you only focus on robbing, you bastards, how could you ever think of attacking from all sides to guard the key points in Guanzhong?" Zhang Tongru complained angrily.
"Who said no?" Li Guiren patted his knees and said, "Who sent people to garrison Dashan Pass? Who sent people to garrison Fufeng County?"
Zhang Tongru frowned and said: "Now Sanguan is still there, but Fufeng County has been lost. If we ignore it, Sanguan will fall into the hands of Li Siye sooner or later. This is not only the only place to attack Hanzhong and Sichuan, if it is
If the Tang army takes it, they can get financial and tax support from the nine counties of Jingxiang and Hanzhong."
"Of course we must recapture Fufeng County! We must also teach the Hexi Army a lesson so that Li Siye will never get involved in Guanzhong!" Li Guiren said loudly: "I only need 8,000 Yiluohe and 23,000 cavalry!"
"Absolutely not." Zhang Tongru raised his hand to stop him and said: "I forgot what Emperor Shengwu said. Soldiers must gather together or disperse. Since we are going to attack, we must fight with overwhelming advantage. Leave fifteen thousand
We are in Chang'an, 5,000 people are in Xianyang County to support us, and the remaining 60,000 people are all set out to attack Fufeng County. Chencang and Dashan Pass cannot be lost!"