Shangcai and Wufang are only more than 100 miles away from Xianghe Pass.

Xianghe Pass is an important passage between the north and the south, and if you capture Xianghe Pass, Fangcheng will have nothing to defend, and the army of the feudal monarch of Chu gathered in Fangcheng will fall into a dangerous situation.

What's more, Fangcheng is only more than 100 miles away from Yangzhai, the capital of South Korea.

Moreover, Xianghe Pass is an important support point for the defense line of the Great Wall of Chu, once the sneak attack on Xianghe is successful, then Yangzhai, the capital of South Korea, will be equivalent to being exposed to the offensive front of the Mo family.

After the Battle of Yinyang, because of the interference of the Mo family and the dispatch of troops from the Chu State, as well as the defensive battle of Xinzheng and the agitation of public opinion, South Korea did not move the capital to Xinzheng, but continued to leave the capital in Yangzhai.

The people of Xinzheng were quite disappointed with the attitude of Wei Han, although the Mo family withdrew on the surface, but after the Xinzheng defensive battle, the people of Xinzheng believed that it was the Zheng Guo clan and Wei Han who betrayed the Zheng people, so they were extremely dissatisfied with the rule of Korea, which made the conditions for Korea to move the capital very immature.

This makes Xianghe Pass equivalent to the southern gate of Korea, and in the case of the Chu royal family being captured and unable to support it, Korea must face the risk that the capital is within a hundred miles of the Mo family's soldiers.

Xianghe is connected to Fangcheng and is a fortress group, that is, Xiangheguan, one of the nine fortresses in the world, but this fortress group is to defend the north.

Organize a defense around this fortress group, and the Six Fingers cannot be attacked if they are pinned down by the Qin State, which requires Shi to do this.

In the face of a group of officers, after Shi clarified his strategic intentions, he said: "Divide a brigade and feint to attack Shang Cai." Shang Cai doesn't have many soldiers, but the system is complete, and he can still defend it for a while. ”

"Wu Fang's words, it is relatively easy to attack, at most there are more than a thousand soldiers, once it is captured, the path for us to attack Xianghe will be opened."

"Shang Cai's feint attack, on the one hand, is to disturb the Chu people, and on the other hand, it is also to make Chu Da Sima have no way to escape."

"I attacked him in the south of Yangcheng, and if he is defeated and retreats without a fight, I will make sure that he cannot run up Cai, but flee north."

The officers understood what Shi meant, and it was obvious that they were going to repair a little in Wufang, and then go straight to Xianghe with surprise troops.

The Wu house is not big, but it is enough to collect and buy enough food, and the Mo family itself has frequent activities there, and the Mo people with merchant status are active there, so short-term food supply is not a problem.

If the 40,000 soldiers in the hands of the Great Sima of Chu can be annihilated, it is only a matter of time before the nearby cities change hands, and under the premise that there are no field troops, and the field forces are mainly peasant soldiers, as long as Xianghe Pass is captured and slowly plotted, it will not be long before these cities will fall.

After this defeat, it is impossible for the feudal monarchs of Chu to dare to be in the south of the hidden water, but will all curl up near the border of Han and Chu to resist stubbornly.

The city without reinforcements could not be defended, and the city south of Zhaoling was equivalent to a matter that had belonged to the Mo family after the fall of Xianghe Pass and the annihilation of Chu Da Sima's legion.

At the same time as the sneak attack on Wu Fang, the elite soldiers who sneaked into Xianghe Pass would not stop, but would go directly to the west.

If the sneak attack fails, the remaining foot soldiers will need to follow up after capturing Wu Fang to launch a strong attack.

After the assignment was completed, everyone did not stop. Shi went south with one division of foot soldiers and nearly two divisions of cavalry; The rest ran westward.

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A day and a half later, Shang Cai.

After a forced march of 80 miles in one and a half days, the soldiers of a certain brigade entered a village near Shangcai in the afternoon.

At this time, Shang Cai was still a peaceful scene, neither knowing that Shi was already sneaking up on Chu Da Sima, nor did he know that the 1,500 people who had attacked the vanguard of the Xie Hang Army had arrived near Shang Cai.

After the soldiers of this brigade occupied the village community, they strictly blocked the news and rested near the village community, which was only more than ten miles away from Shangcai.

After the soldiers were stationed here, they bought and sold harmoniously, and did not disturb the people, but they were not allowed to leave the village, and the people of the village community were originally very active, at most they went into the city to buy some goods.

In the early years, the Mo family was active here, and the people of the village community were no strangers to the Mo family, and when they entered the city to buy goods, they often encountered some Sishang goods, which made them not afraid.

It has long been rumored that the Liberation Army is to relieve the people's upside down, not to beat people, not to kill people, not to scold people, after entering the village, no one panicked.

Even in the evening, some villagers have begun to sell their own firewood and grass, or try to exchange food for paper money in the hands of soldiers.

The banknotes in Sishang can be used here, because the villagers know that these banknotes can buy what they want in Shangcai, whether it is salt, iron, cotton, wood, etc.

In this sneak attack, in addition to carrying the necessary food, the army also brought some hard currency.

For example, gold, salt, etc., I thought that gold would be needed to buy things in such a place, but I didn't think that paper money could be spent in such a place, and the deep penetration of industry and commerce in Sishang, as well as the reality that there was no copper coin to circulate due to the daily rise in copper prices under the arms race of various countries in recent years.

The pickets with the help of the red silk on their arms patrolled the village community to prevent forced buying and selling, and the people of the Xuanyi Department were reasoning with the villagers, and the scouts hid outside the village community to catch and bring back the people who were close to the village community who were almost non-existent.

Under a big tree in the village community, the brigade commander and the officers in the brigade were discussing the feint attack on Shang Cai.

The brigade commander said: "The giant ordered our brigade to feint to attack Cai, in my opinion, this is an opportunity for meritorious service." ”

"Nowadays, it is extremely difficult to make meritorious contributions, and once a war starts, it is often a battle of tens of thousands of people, and you must obey orders and not move lightly......

As soon as he said this, the officers all nodded.

This time it was a feint attack on Shang Cai, and it was naturally best to be able to capture it, and if it couldn't be attacked, it could be regarded as completing the task of feints.

As soon as the war began, it was these brigade-level officers who were the happiest, because they were the most embarrassing group of officers.

The officers at the division commander level are all those who have already gone to a higher command school, and there are only a few regular divisions in Sishang, and they can all enter the middle and upper echelons of the army in a given time.

The company commanders below the brigade level are generally young people who have graduated from military academies, and if they work hard, they will have a chance.

Only the officers at the brigade commander level have already reached this position, and it is extremely difficult to go up further.

It is necessary to make meritorious contributions to have the opportunity to enter the higher military academy to train as an officer at the division commander level, and there are many veteran brigade commanders who have been for more than ten years.

Because officers at the brigade level are the most difficult to get meritorious.

There are some rumors among the officers at the brigade level in the Sishang army that the brigade commander with the best luck went to the South China Sea, the one with the worse luck went to Takayanagi, and the one with the worst luck went to Sishang.

In the South China Sea, the main thing is to suppress the resistance of the old local tribes, and there has been a situation where 800 people have destroyed a country, and it is easy to make meritorious contributions.

From time to time, Takayanagi's side also fought against Lin Hu Lou in the north, and those battles were small-scale, and the brigade commander could personally command and give full play to his own subjective initiative, and some newspapers in the army often had the story of a certain brigade commander in the cloud with 500 cavalry raiding a certain raiding tribe and subduing 10,000 people.

On the Sishang side, there hasn't been much war in these years, and it's really difficult to make meritorious contributions.

Seven or eight years ago, in the First Battle of Yinyang, it was the cavalry that was sent; The six-finger attack on the hill is basically no battle, but it is simply boring to dig pits, open artillery, and enter the city.

In the previous few major battles, it was either to follow orders in the battle and advance and retreat together, even if the subjective initiative was only qualified at the division commander level, and the war at this time depended on the formation, and it was really difficult to have the opportunity to express oneself.

If the company commanders work the battlefield, or train extremely hard and strictly in peacetime training, then they can enter the military academy to study, and then sharpen themselves for a while to become a deputy brigade commander, staff officer and other officers, and once they are recruited and mobilized on a large scale, they can be promoted to brigade commanders.

However, the brigade commanders need to survive a long time, compete with the brigade commanders of the older generation, and compete with the new generation of young people, and there are only a few regular divisions, and when they were founded 20 years ago, there were many people with outstanding military achievements, and it was really difficult to squeeze into the threshold of division commanders.

Just like many brigade commander-level officers often lament that they were born 20 years late, during the Battle of Qiyue, the six fingers of the brigade representative could exert their subjective initiative to march in columns, and that was because the scale of the war was very small at that time, and there were only a few people in the Sishang Volunteer Division.

Up to now, officers at the brigade level can only obey orders during the battle: if the division commander asks you to stay in place as a reserve, you must stay; Before the division commander asks you to cross the formation, you have to brave lead bullet feathers and arrows to cross...... And once you act rashly, it will often bring about a chain reaction, which is not allowed.

To put it appropriately, the first establishment of the righteous teacher 20 years ago relied on subjective initiative, because at that time, the righteous teacher was very fragile and had to perform at a higher level.

Twenty years later, no prince has the ability to defeat the Xie Hang army in a one-on-one situation, what is needed at this time is to obey orders, not to make mistakes is victory, not to fight for the wisdom of the whim, but for logistics, supplies, people's support, food, industrial and commercial foundation......

At this time, the words of the brigade commander were the voices of the officers in the brigade, and they all felt that this time the giant let their brigade feint to attack Cai, which was simply a godsend.

Because it is rare for such brigades to act alone, the scale of the war is increasing day by day, and it has become the norm for a field battle to decide the victory or defeat of a country.

As a foot soldier who is jokingly called "an inferior person in the army", it is better to be the grenadier to attack the city first, to be inferior to the cavalry when it comes to raiding the flanks, to be inferior to the artillery in terms of superiority and comfort, and to pay less attention to those combat engineers...... In many cases, their task was to listen to the heralds' commands and drums, and march on the battlefield with the most mechanical pace, firing, reloading, and charging.

Several brigades with honorary titles, either in a very special situation, or in the South China Sea or in the clouds Takayanagi, it is really too difficult.

Nowadays, there are very few operations at the level of individual infantry brigades, at most those specialized garrison brigades of fortresses and cities, but those people are not field regiments.

Seeing that everyone did not refute, the brigade commander said: "Looking at it now, Shang Cai doesn't know that the army of the giant commander is heading south, let alone that we are already hiding near Shang Cai. There are our comrades in Shangcai again, and the main forces in the city are all in Chu Dasima, and we have a great chance of capturing Shangcai. ”

"Tonight send some warlike soldiers to lurk under the city, we will rest first, and when night comes, we will march quietly. The soldiers climbed the walls in the middle of the night and got rid of the guards at the gates. As soon as the morning dawned, we burst into the city. ”

"If it succeeds, it will be a great achievement."

"If it doesn't work, the enemy doesn't know how many of us there are, they will only choose to stick around and wait for the situation to be confirmed, and they will not leave the city without knowing what is going on outside the city, unless the defenders are fools. We can still complete the task of feints. ”

"1,500 people took Shangcai, even if it is not as good as 800 people to break Lou, but it is not bad. What do you comrades? ”