Chapter 1107: Successful Strategic Containment
"You go and prepare immediately, you bring a few more horses to transport beans for the horses captured yesterday, walk more often, maintain horsepower, calculate the time Yuan Gai Suwen should have sent reinforcements, you are likely to meet on the road, the scouts you sent out in advance are very important."
"Humble duty understands." Zhang Tiangang clasped his fists and saluted, turned around and left.
"The order is to let Guan Xiaotong and Lu Hanbu go back to the camp to rest, and Luo Chunlai will come to the city with five thousand sailors to enter the city to control the entire Daluo City."
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"Wang Junlin has made up his mind to nail the ...... of Annan County" In the Annan County Mansion, Yuan Gai Suwen pulled out deep wrinkles, and in the face of the continuous bad news coming back from the south, he had to make such a judgment.
At this time, he frowned, his face was extremely gloomy, when Wang Junlin's naval army crisscrossed their Goguryeo seas, and their Goguryeo sailors could not control each other, Goguryeo had already fallen into passivity.
Wang Junlin's sailors on Dami Island and Bailing Island had as many as 10,000 people, and now they have mobilized 10,000 troops, in addition, Zhao Chen and Huang Shaoqiu led 30,000 sailors to attack and harass in the waters of Chengyang County, and the Great Sui had as many as 50,000 men and horses from the sea, and Goguryeo had to deploy nearly 60,000 sailor troops in Annan and Chengyang counties in order to barely ensure the stability of the defense line.
In order to gather 60,000 water infantry troops in the two southern counties, it was obviously not enough to evacuate almost all the soldiers and auxiliaries in the two southern counties of Goguryeo.
In the current situation, for Wang Junlin, there is no need to do any more dangerous tricks or tricks, he only needs to firmly hold Daluo City, and then let Zhao Chen and Huang Shaoqiu's 30,000 sailors continue to attack and harass Chengyang County and contain a large number of Goguryeo troops.
"We only have a total of 300,000 horses in Goguryeo, and we must ensure that Wang Junlin's men and horses are suppressed in Daluo City, let alone 30,000 or 40,000 people, and the battle between the prime minister and the main army of Emperor Sui is already very difficult, and now we can only forcibly gather the private soldiers and guards of the nobles of the two counties together." A veteran in scaly armor stood beside Yuangai Suwen and said in an urn.
"Not to mention how difficult it is to get the families to let out their private soldiers and guards," said Yuangai Suwen, "Even if we forcibly gather the private soldiers and guards of the nobles of the two counties, and an extra 20,000 troops come out, it is only enough to block the 30,000 sailors of Chengyang County, and relying on them to fight Wang Junlin's army is simply sending them to death...... And Chengyang County can't be lost at the moment. ”
Sungyang County is the most important grain-producing area in Goguryeo, with more than 3 million acres of dry land. In the past few years, it was severely disturbed by the East China Sea invaders, but in recent years, agriculture has recovered rapidly. Although it cannot be compared with the land of fish and rice in the south of the Great Sui River, it is extremely precious in Goguryeo, which is "seven points of mountains, one point of water, and two points of fields", especially at the moment and during the all-out war of the Great Sui, the daily consumption of grain and grass by the front-line army is a huge amount, and in a country as small as Goguryeo, raising an army of 300,000 is already the limit, not to mention that there are 50,000 horses and horses in the direction of Baekje and Silla.
For Yuangai Suwen, in order to regain the initiative in Annan County, it is necessary to press the soldiers and horses under Daluo City, and even take Daluo City back directly. To achieve this step, it is necessary to maintain absolute superiority in troops, but it is not easy to say, or it is impossible in a short period of time, and it is also necessary to prevent Wang Junlin's army from continuing to attack the three county towns north of Annan County.
Yuangai Suwen lamented in his heart: "Wang Junlin controls the sea route, and can assemble and transfer troops and various supplies at a rapid speed, and they don't even know how many troops Wang Junlin has gathered in Daluo City. ”
For Yuangai Suwen, only by delaying the situation, waiting for the main force led by his father in the east and the main battlefield of the Great Sui Emperor to achieve victory, and then sending a large army from the east to the south to support, could he regain the initiative in Annan County.
With the main force of Wang Junlin's naval army pressed on the sea, and the 30,000 naval divisions led by Zhao Chen and Huang Shaoqiu, Goguryeo had no possibility of regaining control of the sea from Wang Junlin's hands.
Ten days after the start of the war, the 30,000 naval divisions led by Zhao Chen and Huang Shaolai became more and more active, the garrison of Goguryeo in Chengyang County had been completely reduced, and the control of some villages and towns along the coast of Chengyang County and almost all the islands fell into the hands of Zhao Chen and Huang Shaoqiu.
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After Wang Junlin occupied Daluo City, he immediately arranged for people to build a transit military village between Daluo City and Nanyang Village.
However, Yu Chi Jingde led 3,000 cavalry to retreat to Daluo City after killing most of the Goguryeo troops who fled from Daluo City, and only the 500 special combat teams under Zhang Tiangang were divided into two groups and took turns to operate between the north of Daluo City and the county town of Annam, which always put great pressure on the Goguryeo people.
After the situation in Da Luocheng was all straightened out, Wang Junlin summoned Wei Chi Jingde, Luo Chunlai, Lu Han, and Guan Xiaotong to hold a situation analysis meeting to further draw up a battle plan.
"According to the information sent by Shen Guo'er, although Yuangai Suwen had some actions, due to the lack of troops, except for recruiting more people from the local area, and forcibly asking the nobles to hand over their private soldiers and guards to gather together, there was no sign of transferring troops from other places. In terms of troops, we, plus Zhao Chen's 30,000 water divisions, are still in an advantageous position, and the enemy is defending many cities, so we can concentrate our forces in Daluo City and Nanyang Village, and the advantage will be more obvious. Wang Junlin first briefed everyone on the overall situation.
"According to the plan, I will instruct Huang Shaoqiu's side to let the 30,000 sailors make a posture of attacking Chengyang County, and attract Goguryeo's soldiers and horses in the two counties in the south to the front line of Chengyang County......
The so-called strategy is, fundamentally speaking, to do everything possible to form a superiority in forces to suppress the enemy, and this is true in strategy and tactics.
Even when forced to do so, the use of dangerous tactics is aimed at avoiding the enemy's superior forces and striking at the enemy's weak points by forming a local superiority in forces.
Opening up the battlefields of Annam and Sungyang counties, even if they could not succeed in conquering these two counties, would force Goguryeo to devote more troops to these two counties.
Now in eastern Zhejiang, Goguryeo has been forced to mobilize all the people and horses that can be mobilized; In order to ensure that Chengyang County, a large grain-producing county, would not be taken away under the attack of the Great Sui Naval Army, Goguryeo was bound to mobilize no less than 30,000 soldiers and horses in Chengyang County, and as long as Goguryeo was forced to invest 30,000 to 40,000 troops in Annan County, Goguryeo's desperate strength in the west and the main army led by Yang Guang would be affected as a whole.
This is the advantage of controlling the sea, Wang Junlin with less than 20,000 troops, at least three or four times the number of troops of Goguryeo in the south.
In terms of general strategy, even if Wang Junlin knew that Yang Guang would probably be defeated at the hands of the Goguryeo people as much as possible in the original history, he still had to change the outcome of history as much as possible, at least let the Great Sui people die less in Goguryeo.
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