Volume 3 Chapter 230 1 The Fight Begins (3)

At night, the lights were still on in Zhou Yu's room. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Sun Shangxiang's voice suddenly came from outside the door: "Brother Zhong, why haven't you slept so late?" ”

"Shang Xiang? Come on in. ”

"Into what? Your door is bolted. ”

β€œβ€¦β€¦ Wait a minute. ”

The door opened, Sun Shangxiang first poked into the room before entering the room, and at a glance saw the map hanging on the wall by Zhou Yu, and asked, "What is Brother Zhong thinking?" ”

Zhou Yu's gaze returned to the map, and he muttered, "One is missing." ”

Sun Shangxiang said: "What's missing?" ”

Zhou Yu folded his arms: "There is one less army arranged by Lu Yizhou. According to the current war situation, Lu Lingqi and Chen Gongtai are guarding Jinzhou, Tuoba Yu and Murong Ziying are guarding Chrysanthemum Harbor, and Deng Ai is sitting on Chrysanthemum Island......"

Sun Shangxiang said: "There's nothing wrong with this, right? ”

Zhou Yu shook his head: "Shang Xiang, your heart is too straightforward after all, and you don't think deeply about many related things." ”

After a pause, Zhou Yu's finger pointed on the map: "As far as I know, Jinzhou is the original Liucheng, which is where the royal city of Karasuma Shan Yu Dun is located, and Lu Yizhou chose to build a new Jinzhou on the original site of Liucheng after taking Liaoxi. ”

Sun Shangxiang was a little dazed: "What? ”

Zhou Yu looked at Sun Shangxiang's ...... Well, in modern terms, it looks cute and stupid, and I really can't help but stretch out my hand and bend my fingers to knock on Sun Shangxiang's head. Speaking of which, when Zhou Yu was a weak-crowned teenager in the past, and Sun Shangxiang was still a little girl, this kind of thing often happened: "Stupid Shangxiang!" Liucheng is recognized by many tribes in western Liaoning as a place of worship to the sky, and its significance is extraordinary for the large and small tribes in western Liaoning. There are some things that I said too deeply that you may not understand, so you might as well think about it this way, if you take a tribe of people to wander away and leave your homeland all the year round, then where is the place you most want to return to in your heart? ”

Sun Shangxiang responded almost without thinking: "Of course, I hope to go back to my hometown." ”

Zhou Yu said: "So when you return to your hometown, what will you definitely do?" ”

"Of course, it is to rebuild ancestral tombs and worship ancestors...... Oh! I understand. ”

Zhou Yu nodded: "Jinzhou is such a place. ”

Sun Shangxiang said: "It is reasonable that the alliance of the three clans is besieging Jinzhou now, but is there anything wrong now? ”

Zhou Yu said: "Jinzhou's guards are not right. Oh, this wrong of mine is not about ability, but about meaning. Let's put it this way, Lu Yizhou was able to take Liaoxi at the beginning, and a large part of it was because he supported Tuoba Yu and Murong Ziying, and used the identity of these two people to unify many Xianbei tribes. Then Jinzhou will be newly built, and as Tuoba Yu is now (the high priest), he should stay in Jinzhou anyway. But now you can also see that Tuoba Yu stayed in Chrysanthemum Harbor and not Jinzhou. ”

Sun Shangxiang said: "I was a little dizzy when I heard it...... Brother Zhong, can I understand it in this way? Jinzhou is the seat of governance in western Liaoning, and Tuoba Yu is the assassin of western Liaoxi assigned by Lu Yizhou, so it stands to reason that Tuoba Yu should stay in Jinzhou City no matter what? ”

Zhou Yu nodded: "That's what it means." ”

Sun Shangxiang spread his hands: "Then there doesn't seem to be anything wrong with this now, right?" When a strong enemy comes to attack, the head of a place cannot afford to lose, so he temporarily goes elsewhere and leaves the battle to his subordinates. ”

Zhou Yu said: "So you don't see the deep meaning of Lu Yizhou hidden under this seemingly reasonable arrangement. There are 20,000 regular garrisons in western Liaoning, and I'm sure they are all elite divisions under Lu Yizhou. And although there are more than 100,000 people in the alliance of the three clans, if they really meet the 20,000 elite divisions in Lu Yizhou, I dare to say that they will definitely not take advantage of it. In other words, if Lu Yizhou just wanted to drive the more than 100,000 three-clan alliance troops back to Mobei, then it was unlikely that these three-clan alliance forces would be able to surround Jinzhou City and Chrysanthemum Port like they were now. ”

Sun Shangxiang was stunned for a while, and after thinking about it for a while, he nodded and said, "That's right!" The regular soldiers under Lu Yizhou's command are strictly trained, have strong combat power, and are well-armed. Moreover, I can see that when Lu Yizhou was training his troops, he had a lot of tactics specifically about how to deal with cavalry. If such a force is pulled out, a dozen or so men can completely resist tens of thousands of cavalry. ”

Zhou Yu looked left and right cautiously at this time, and then leaned into Sun Shangxiang's ear and whispered: "So according to my analysis of the current battle situation, the purpose of Lu Yizhou is not to resist, but to gather and annihilate!" ”

Sun Shangxiang was startled, and quickly looked left and right in the same way, and then said in a low voice: "Ju Annihilation? Hundreds of thousands? Will Lu Yizhou's appetite be too big? Lu Yizhou's soldiers and horses are refined, but no matter how you say it, there are only more than 20,000 people, will it be ...... to gather and annihilate more than 100,000 people?"

Zhou Yu smiled coldly: "Until now, do you still think that there are only more than 20,000 people in Luyi Prefecture in Liaoxi?" Shang Xiang, these 20,000 people are actually just the inherent strength of Liaoxi, and you haven't counted many other troops. ”

Stretched out his finger and nodded on the Chrysanthemum Island where they are now: "Deng Ai led 8,000 people, counting our Jiangdong disciples, there are 13,000, so there are more than 30,000." Didn't I tell you just now that Tuoba Yu was in the wrong place? Shangxiang, don't forget, Tuoba Yu is now a recognized high priest in western Liaoning, and the Karasuma, Xianbei and other tribes attached to her name were originally nomadic tribes, and as long as they got on the horse and then picked up arms, they were excellent cavalrymen. I roughly calculated that at some point, Tuoba Yu gave an order, and Chrysanthemum Harbor would immediately gather at least 30,000 nomadic cavalry.

"But now you have also seen that such a force, Tuoba Yu has not been ordered to convene until now, so does she not want to? No way? It should have been that the time had not yet come, and it was even likely that they had already been gathered, but they avoided everyone's sight and went to other places to prepare by another way. ”

At this point, Zhou Yu stopped, his brows tightened again, and Sun Shangxiang asked when he saw this: "Brother Zhong said that there was one less group of people arranged by Lu Yizhou, is this one of them?" ”

Zhou Yu shook his head: "It's not about this, because the intention of this hidden army has been seen by me, so it can't be regarded as a hidden army." What I want to say is...... Where did Gan Ning go? The two generals under Lu Yizhou are Gan Ning and Huang Zhong, and these two have led the army from Yizhou, Huang Zhong is now guarding Liaodong, but why didn't Gan Ning appear in Liaoxi?

"For Liaoxi, we are outsiders after all, there are many things that are inconvenient for us to know, and it is impossible for us to ask where Gan Ning went. But we can be sure that Gan Ning, as Lu Yizhou's henchman, must have gone to the most critical place and is ready to go. ”

Sun Shangxiang nodded.

Zhou Yu's gaze returned to the map, and he muttered: "So after I saw that Lu Yizhou had the intention of gathering and destroying the incoming enemy, I began to calculate where Gan Ning might have gone. And in my opinion, Gan Ning most likely went to these two places! ”

Sun Shangxiang glanced at the place pointed out by Zhou Yu a few times, and immediately understood a lot: "These are the two main roads for the three clan alliance forces to return to Mobei. Brother Zhong, what do you mean...... Gan Ning took a detour to block the retreat? ”

Zhou Yu said: "It shouldn't be wrong. Once these two places were blocked by Gan Ning, the hundreds of thousands of people of the three-clan alliance army were basically trapped in western Liaoning. What I don't know now is how Lu Yizhou is going to fight the next battle. According to my calculations, Lu Yizhou is almost the time to counterattack first, and the three ethnic coalition forces will be scared...... Shang Xiang, now you should understand why I rushed over, right? If we're late, we won't be able to fight at all, so what's the point of us coming? ”

"What do you think, brother Zhong?"

Zhou Yu smiled, but did not speak.

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The Art of War: Military struggle is for profit, and there is no profit and no profit.

The alliance of the three clans has been besieging Chrysanthemum Harbor for several days, and why would they want to take Chrysanthemum Harbor down? To put it bluntly, isn't it because they need money and food?

When they came to attack Liaoxi, they had the idea that they would have to make enough money if they couldn't defeat Liaoxi, and Chrysanthemum Port, as the most important port in Liaoxi, would actually reserve no less money, grain, and military supplies than Jinzhou. After all, the land transportation capacity at that time was relatively limited, and Chrysanthemum Port itself was an important town for water and land transportation. If the alliance of the three clans can take Chrysanthemum Port, it means that they can get a large number of military supplies, and they can continue to besiege Jinzhou if they advance, and they can also bring enough harvest when they retreat.

However, Chrysanthemum Port is really not so easy to fight, because where would Lu Ren not know the importance of Chrysanthemum Port? As an important bridgehead for enterprising and stabilizing western Liaoning, it can be said to be the fulcrum on the pole, and if this fulcrum is not strong enough, where can it work?

In fact, before the construction of Jinzhou City, Chrysanthemum Port had received many baptisms of war, and there were two large-scale ones. With these baptisms of war, it has also made the garrison of Chrysanthemum Port more and more complete. The alliance of the three clans wants to take Chrysanthemum Port? Let's work harder!

However, the three-clan alliance army did not do anything at all, at least the villages and towns outside Chrysanthemum Port were sacked by the three-clan alliance army. In addition to the main throughput ports of key protection, or the official throughput ports, those small private ports have almost been destroyed by the three-ethnic coalition army.

There is no way, this is war, and Lu Ren has a disadvantage in strength after all, and it is impossible to take care of everything, so he can only choose to give up appropriately. To put it another very dark side, Lu Ren didn't care about these private ports, but also deliberately wanted to intensify the contradictions between the foreign subjects who were attached to him and the alliance of the three tribes.

However, in order to drag down part of the three-clan alliance army and relieve the pressure on Jinzhou City, Lu Ren and Chen Gong also set a trap to lure the enemy army, that is, to make a false impression that the defenders on Chrysanthemum Island want to sneak attack the three-clan alliance army at every turn, to put it bluntly, they sent some "landing ships" to land in some areas near Chrysanthemum Port every once in a while. Some of them really hit a few times, took advantage of a little and slipped away, and some were intentionally or unintentionally discovered by the alliance of the three clans, and then threw down the money and food flash.

Another one, that is, the previous "nail households", at this time also became the bait of this lure tactic, that is to say, Chrysanthemum Island will send ships to meet the evacuation of these "nail households". And these "nail households" are oil, water and slaves in the eyes of the three-clan coalition army, so they are all enthusiastic about capturing these "nail households".

And after nightfall on this day, more than a dozen ships approached the coast, and there were a lot of heads on the coast. And very "unfortunately", this situation was discovered by some three-clan coalition troops who patrolled the night, so a large number of three-clan coalition troops immediately made a whistling sound and rushed to the place of the incident to "make a fortune".

The next situation surprised the three clan alliance forces, that is、It is said that these ships actually ran aground on the coast!?

When the Xianbei cavalry rushed closer, many people jumped off their horses and rushed onto the boat along the sampan of the ship on the shore, and the Xianbei cavalry who followed behind also rushed to the boat. Wuhu rangers have always been robbers, and now there are things to grab, who is willing to fall behind others, and in the end they can't even grab a fart?

There are about 30 ships docked along the coast, most of which are small and medium-sized sea vessels from Yizhou. This is mainly due to the fact that the draft of large ships in Yizhou is too deep, and if there is no dedicated dock, most of them will have to run aground as soon as they dock. Therefore, in the general situation of navigation, the docking supply is done by small and medium-sized ships. Among the Xianbei cavalry, there were people who had mixed up at the Tianjin dock, and naturally mentioned it to Budugen, so Budugen did not doubt this, but just ordered those Xianbei cavalry who boarded the ship not to patronize and grab things, but to snatch the boat first, and then use the robbed boat to attack the big ships in the offshore sea.

It was just that under this order, the Xianbei cavalry who boarded the ship suddenly exclaimed that there was no money or food on these ships, and the smell of sulfur wafted throughout the ship. Before Bu Dugen could react here, the thirty or so ships parked on the coast in Yizhou suddenly caught fire together. The flames immediately ignited the sulfur and other materials in the ship, followed by earth-shattering explosions one after another.

Bu Dugen knew the plan, and was just about to order the withdrawal of the army, when the shouts of the Yizhou soldiers in the four places were already loud. Not only on the ground, but also many Yizhou ships in the offshore sea also approached, and for a time the arrows and flying stones on the ship were like torrential rain. And the most fatal thing is that there are still twelve huge battleships that sprayed fireballs one after another from the side portholes, and as soon as these fireballs fell into the Xianbei cavalry, they immediately exploded, taking away the lives of the Xianbei cavalry in pieces!

"It's an artillery battleship in Yizhou! We've been tricked!! ”