Chapter 61: The Foundation
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First, he pulled out the outer city of Xiangcheng, set fire to the corn and vehicles inside and outside the city, killed all the cattle and horses, and dispersed all the soldiers, and then attacked Yeyi. Without waiting for the reaction of the Qin army stationed in Juancheng and Xuanguan, he then attacked Fangcheng overnight, and wrangled the section from Xiangcheng to Wancheng from behind the Qin army. In the face of the cavalry of the Chu army, the Qin army on the entire line could only shrink into the city and tremble.
If it weren't for the millet harvest season, Li Xin, who received the news, would definitely have to return to the army immediately, but now the new millet in his hand is enough for the whole army to eat for a month, giving him more time to deal with it. Wancheng Chengyi Mansion, where Xiong Jing stayed ten days ago, was scorched earth at this time, and on this scorched earth, Li Xin thought about where he should go.
Last year, the right general Feng Zai was killed in battle, and a few months ago, Guanzhong transferred tens of thousands of elite soldiers, and Li Xin only had his own Chinese army and Zhao Wan's left army under his command. Due to the fortification along the line, Anqi and other generals stayed in Xiangcheng and Zhangguan and other cities along the line, and only he and Zhao Wan were sitting in the big tent at the moment.
"King Jing should leave Fangcheng from Luguan to Xiangcheng." Li Xin and Zhao Wan sat opposite each other, and Zhao Wan was talking about the route of the Chu army. Considering that Master Ying's previous was in Lantian Valley Road, and now he suddenly appeared outside Fang City, there was only one route.
"I have sent 5,000 people to guard the ...... Luguan" There are two roads out of Fangcheng in the north: one is the Fangchengkou in the northeast of Wancheng, which is the main road; Another is that Wancheng goes directly north along Baishui, where is Luguan. It is rumored that Liu Xiu got lost here at the end of the Western Han Dynasty, and he had to be guided by the crow to get through, and this road was called the Three Crow Road in the future. Luguan Road was extremely steep, and he sent soldiers to garrison it, and it was difficult for Li Xin to imagine how the Chu army could get out of Fangcheng from there.
"Fang Cheng is the Fang City of Jing people." Zhao Wan smiled. "The general thinks, when will our army march west to Wuguan? If you go west to Wuguan, what about the cities along the way? ”
"The Jing people were defeated in Daze, and there were no soldiers in Fangcheng." Li Xin also laughed, in ten years, this was his most relaxed war. "I want to go straight to Yancheng, but the time has not yet come, and Bai Lin has not won Bashu at this time."
From Fangcheng to the south to attack Yancheng, at the same time from Bashu along the Yishui to attack the pass, one south and one north to encircle the old Ying, this is the layout of the Qin army in the battle of Yanying more than 50 years ago. Li Xin entered Fangcheng, and what he needed was for Bai Lin to lead his army to capture Bashu.
"I may have been ordered to march west to Wuguan and meet with General Zhao Yong at Wuguan Shangyi, but I knew that the foundation of the Jing people was in the east and not in the south county. Attacking Wuguan, the Jing people will abandon Nanzheng, or they will retreat to the east, and it will be difficult to attack the Jing people again.
I want to ......"
After the Battle of Daze, it was a little difficult for the Qin State to adapt to the sudden huge victory, and the most concrete embodiment was that the follow-up strategy was chaotic, including Zhao Zhengwei, everyone was a little confused. Although the current strategy is to attack Bashu according to the original plan, Wang Jian put forward a strategy of abandoning Bashu and not attacking.
Today's state of Chu is completely different from the state of Chu more than 50 years ago, the foundation of the state of Chu more than 50 years ago was in Nanjun, and the foundation of today's state of Chu is not in Nanzheng. The Chu army has restored Nanjun, Nanyang, Hanzhong, Bashu and ......, recovered so many land and cities, and obtained so many Dingkou households, has the Chu army increased? Has the state of Chu become stronger?
No! The foundations of the Chu State in Nanjun, Nanyang, and Hanzhong had long been uprooted by the Qin State, and although these places were recovered, they could not be used. If you can't use these places, then what good will the Qin army recover from these places? The Qin army can increase its strength when it recovers Nanyang, but can't it increase its strength if it captures Ludi?
Since the Qin army can benefit from attacking any place, but the Chu army has Nanjun, Nanyang and other places but cannot use them for its own use, then why not continue to let the Chu people occupy these useless places, and the Qin army can attack those useful places?
The eastern part of the Chu State seems to be heavily defended, but in fact it is full of loopholes. From Nanji Water Energy to Pengcheng Ludi; From Rushui and Yingshui, you can attack to Si Shouying; From the East China Sea, you can attack Langya Huaikou, and even Zhu Fang. The Qin army already has a boat division that is not inferior to the Chu army, why not build a war boat, storm the eastern part of the Chu State, and use the western land to contain the Chu army?
This is the gist of Wang Jian's book. Although many strategists thought that Wang Jian was planning for himself, because the war on the Western Front transferred his soldiers and snatched away the very tense war boats, in Li Xin's view, Wang Qian's words may not be unreasonable.
Bashu is not important, it is the frontier of the world; The old Yingfang City was no longer the foundation of the Chu State, so Nanzheng was not important. Moreover, the success of the Qin army in Bashu and Hanzhong was beneficial to the Chu state, which would prompt the Chu state to move east again. At this time, the army invaded Fangcheng, Fangcheng actually had no soldiers to garrison, Su Miao was allowed to harvest by himself, how empty was the military strength of Chu State! Moving into the East will be different, moving into the East Wei, Zhao, Qi, and Chu will work together, and any path to attack will be inspired by the Chu army to resist.
Li Xin groaned, and his gaze fell on Shang Cai in the south of Fangcheng. Fangcheng is a crossroads, he doesn't want to go back to save Xiangcheng and Yeyi, he doesn't want to go south to attack Fan Xiang, and he doesn't want to go west to Wuguan, he wants to attack the east of Chu. Only by attacking the eastern part of the Chu State can the Chu people be killed, but unfortunately, the previous military order of the Guoweifu was to ask him to enter Wuguan west and receive Zhao Yong into Fangcheng.
"The general wants to pull out Cai?" Zhao Wan understood what Li Xin meant.
"Yes." Li Xin's finger is in the position of Shang Cai. "Shang Cai controls Rushui, can go straight into Huaishui, once into Huaishui, the east is erosive. The reason why the Jing people migrated to Nanzheng and attacked me from Chen Cangdao was because Guanzhong was the foundation of our Qin State. ”
"However, our army has no food, if we attack the east, ......" Li Xin said very reasonably, but he forgot the reality.
"There is grain in Bashu, but there is no grain in the east?" Li Xin asked with a smile. "Jing people deliberately lure me to Nanzheng and Bashu, why not? It's just a matter of delay. If I and the Jing people repeatedly attack Bashu and Nanzheng, the eastern land will be able to rest, and the Jing people will be strong again in five years. ”
Li Xin is a young man, the more he talks, the more firm he is to attack the idea of attacking the east, when Zhao Wan is still thinking, his hand is already on the map on the position of Cai, and said: "I have made up my mind, when I pull out Cai and enter the east, the people of Yujing want to enter the customs and go straight to the heart." ”
"The national lieutenant has issued an order to ...... general" The order said that it should be changed, and King Zhao was a little surprised.
"There will be no disapproval of the king's order outside." Li Xindao. "Jing people have no soldiers at this time, and Zhao Yong's 100,000 people can't break through the martial arts?"
"The national lieutenant wants the general and General Zhao Yong to join forces, and at that time, there was a cavalry army of Yu Fen, and the attack of King Jing was also disturbed." Zhao Wan persuaded that he felt that the plan of the National Governor's Mansion was not necessarily bad, but it focused on a different point.
"No, it's too slow." Li Xindao. "And the Jing people have no soldiers at this time, our army will pull out Cai, and Zhao Yong will pull out the martial arts, all of them can be."
"If King Jing leads the army to attack me...... "The three-thousand-mile defense line is full of loopholes, Li Xin is not afraid of the Chu army, and Zhao Wan is still a little worried.
"King Jing only has 30,000 divisions, plus the rest of the divisions and brigades are at most 60,000, and our army is 200,000, which is three times the enemy." After many fierce battles, the establishment of the Chu army and the Qin army gradually became familiar with it, and the total strength of the army also had a rough idea in my heart. "And Shang Cai is on the side of Rushui, and has nothing to do with the water, and the Chu army is all along the water, if you want to hit me, you should chase me to Shang Cai."
No one could guess the direction to the east, and the more Li Xin spoke, the happier he became. In the afternoon, he persuaded the protector Zhao Zi to send people along the water to Lushi County to report to Xianyang, and the next morning, the army, together with the Han soldiers who robbed Su He, hundreds of thousands of people covered the sky and covered the wilderness, and marched east together.
Li Xin entered Wancheng, or went west to meet Zhao Yong, who was repairing the Lantian plank road; Either he went south from Wancheng and went straight to Jiuying, but he really didn't expect him to go east. What does it mean to be eastward? To the east is to Huaishang. The cavalry led by Xiong Jing mobilized the Qin army to protect the back road, and after the cavalry army led by Xiong Jing staggered south with the Qin army, and fought a decisive battle with Li Xin north of Fancheng, or between Shangmi and Wuguan. Now it is good that Li Xin will neither go west nor south, but go east to Wei.
"Li Xin is vicious!" Four days later, Xiong Jing, who saw the combat secretary and personally accompanied Shentong, sighed as soon as he read the long letter.
The eastern land is indeed extremely empty, and to the north is the remnants of Zhao Wei's army, these remnants can only hold the beam, and the rest of the cities cannot hold at all. In the east, there were ten divisions of Mulingguan, although these ten divisions mostly went south along Yishui and Mushui to support the Pengcheng line, but they were of no help to Huaixi.
"King," Zhuang Wudi didn't know what Li Er's plan was, and when he saw that Xiong Jing had finished reading it, he wanted to ask for it. When he saw the contents of the letter, he was a little surprised. "Zhao Yong wants to attack Wuguan, and Li Xindong enters Wei?"
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