Chapter 789: The stalemate in the Battle of Hanzhong
Jingzhou, outside the city of Xiangyang.
Flying Tiger Barracks.
The recent reform of the Military Aircraft Department has not caused any agitation, but in fact it has changed its name and turned the seven military camps that were originally formed by region into military camps with banners in the name of the banner.
The Jingzhou battalion was changed to the Flying Tiger Battalion, which was called the Flying Tiger Army in the army, one of the seven armies of Wu State, of course, this was just a name change, and the following establishment did not change, compared to the Jingzhou battalion, this name made Lu Bu more excited.
After all, he is not from Jingzhou, and taking the tiger as his army can make him reflect the momentum of his own camp.
However, the current Lu Bu was not happy at all, his face was long, his eyes were striking, and he looked at Chen Gong, the deputy director of the General Staff Department, who came from afar.
"Gongtai, what does he mean by Huang Hansheng, he wants to dig into the corner of General Ben's wall?"
Huang Zhong actually paid attention to him.
I want to recruit Cao sex across the camp.
Is that possible?
He won't let him go.
He, Lu Bu, controls the Flying Tiger Battalion and commands more than 100,000 soldiers and horses, but his subordinates can stand alone with only a few people, guarding Jingzhou, and his own generals are not enough, and he has to detain people from him.
And what I want is Cao Xing.
If Huang Zhong was here, he would definitely have a fight with Huang Zhong.
Cao Xing is not a small guard general for him Lu Bu, it is of great significance, as his old subordinate, one of the only two remaining achievements of the former Eight Jian Generals, Cao Xing is like a brother and sister in his heart.
"General Lu, don't be angry yet!"
Chen Gong knew Lu Bu better, but he was not surprised by Lu Bu's reaction, he smiled and said: "General Huang also has a hard time, and what kind of place Bingzhou is, compared to you, you are also very clear in your heart. The people have always been fierce, and now he has experienced several major chaos and wars, and he has not been able to guard the general of the state, this task has fallen on his head, he wants to borrow the general, and he can understand! ”
"Why did you borrow it from someone's head?" Lu Bu glanced at Chenggong. said coldly: "Could it be that I, Lu Fengxian, can't be bullied!" ”
"Because the state is the general's hometown!"
Chen Gong spread his hands and said: "In this battle of Bingzhou, as soon as Captain Lu Lan's Vermilion Bird Battalion appeared in Jiuyuan, it only took a few days to stabilize Jiuyuan, which shows that General Lu's prestige in Bingzhou has not weakened in the slightest even now. It can only be Cao Xing under the general's command! ”
"Don't give it!"
Lu Bu said very decisively: "A certain family now has a large group of small hairy heads, Chen Wu and Lu Mengdong attack them, there are a lot of people who can fight, but when it comes to being stable and proper, Cao Xing is just one person, and he won't give anything!" ”
"General, why don't you listen to me first, okay!"
Chen Gong patted his forehead, he was a little helpless about the stubbornness of this tiger. I'm afraid that even pulling out the face of the military aircraft department is not good.
"Gongtai, you can talk about it today. A certain family doesn't give it either! "Lu Bu said categorically, he wants him to dig people here, but there is no way.
"General Lu, General Huang is not the one who borrowed you for nothing, there are conditions!"
"What conditions?" Shi Tao, the chief of staff next to him, saw that the atmosphere was a little cold, and hurriedly asked.
Chen Gong said Huang Zhong's conditions: "General Huang said it. There is also a military rank of General Anbei under the name of the Blood Wolf Battalion, this is the rank of a heavy general, if you lend Cao Xuan to him, he will be put on the military aircraft department by General Anbei to Cao Xuan! ”
"General Anbei?"
When Lu Bu heard this, his eyes lit up: "Huang Hansheng, that old guy." Is it so easy to talk to? ”
Among the seven military camps, there can be a few heavy generals, and there are only a few heavy generals in Wu State, and he can't find a single one for Cao Xing to be promoted.
"That's what General Huang said!"
Chen Gong shrugged his shoulders and said lightly: "He will never be in front of you Lu Bu, with empty white teeth!" ”
"Maybe that's for sure!"
Lu Bu snorted coldly: "Now they are staring at their own battalions one by one, they all want to enhance their strength, and they have basically become old foxes, some time ago, Pan Zhang under Xu Sheng wanted to fight Yizhou County, Yizhou County has many mountains and forests, so he borrowed a few divisions from Wuxi Man, but the establishment of these divisions originally belonged to our Jingzhou battalion."
I lent two mountain divisions to Xu Sheng, but the girl didn't even leave me a hair, I only received an official letter from the military aircraft department a few days ago, only to know that the thief and thief guy actually reported to the military aircraft department, and the establishment of the two mountain divisions in Jingzhou fell on their Jiaozhou camp! ”
"Is there anything else going on?" When Chen Gong heard this, he was stunned for a moment, and smiled slightly bitterly: "Why don't I know?" ”
"Mr. Gongtai, don't mention this matter!"
Chief of Staff Shi Tao said cautiously in Chen Gong's ear: "The official document from the Military Aircraft Department has come down, and the two mountain divisions have been settled in his house by General Xu Sheng. ”
"General, since Huang Zhong dares to put forward conditions, I believe he will honor it, what he said in front of me, it is impossible to play you Lu Bu, and I am also playing my staff department!"
Chen Gong was a little helpless this time, with such a stubble, no wonder Lu Bu was really difficult to speak.
"Guangyuan, what do you think?" Lu Bu thought about it and squinted his eyes, in fact, it was very possible for Huang Zhong to play him, and he really wanted to use the entire heavy general to exchange Cao Xing for going to the blood wolf camp.
After all, Huang Zhong is a general, and when he speaks, he spills water, which is about his reputation.
"General, this matter is different from General Xu's previous incident, since General Huang said it, it is impossible for him to regret it, he is a dignified general, and he will not lose his credibility for the rank of a heavy general.
However, general, this matter still has to listen to General Cao Xing's own opinion, after all, it is related to his future in the army, General Cao Xing, he is not very old, he still has the opportunity to stand alone, from the miscellaneous general to the heavy general, in the military, it is a watershed, related to the future development! ”
Shi Tao pondered for a while before expressing his opinion.
After the implementation of the new military system of Wu State, it is very difficult to support the army and respect itself, because the military and the local government have been separated, the logistics are still under the control of the center, and there is also a staff deputy general in the army. Even if it is the other way around, no one will follow.
Therefore, now the sons and daughters in the army all take climbing up as the lofty goal, and if they want to climb up, the military rank is very important.
"That's right!"
Lu Bu nodded: "Cao Xing has been with me for many years, and now we are both Wu generals." A certain family can't block his future because he doesn't want to, you give him a barracks paperwork and let him come back from Xinye! ”
"No!" Shi Tao nodded.
"Gongtai, this time, you're not just here for Cao Xing's business!"
Lu Bu turned his head, looking at this former confidant and strategist, his expression moved slightly.
"There's one more thing, indeed!" Chen Gong nodded and spit out four words: "Hanzhong Battle!" ”
There was a truce in the north. But to the south, Hanzhong and Yizhou counties have large and small battles going on.
The Battle of Hanzhong is now a battle that the Military Aircraft Department pays more attention to.
In this battle, the Military Aircraft Department even lent the Overlord Iron Cavalry to the Flying Tiger Battalion, but there was no result for a long time, and the Military Aircraft Department was a little impatient.
"You're here to ask for sin?" Lu Bu's face was a little ugly. In this battle, the Flying Tiger Battalion really failed to deliver a good result.
"You can't talk about it!" Chen Gong shook his head. Said: "But about the Hanzhong Campaign, now the Military Aircraft Department is more concerned, and we want a result!" ”
"Guangyuan, you come to tell Gongtai about the current situation of the Hanzhong Campaign!"
When Lu Bu talked about the Battle of Hanzhong, his strong face showed a slightly helpless expression.
"Mr. Gongtai, the current situation in Hanzhong. Back to the original starting point, in a stalemate situation, Wu Jun, Zhang Lu, Wei Jun. Hold on to the inside and outside of Shangyong City! ”
Shi Tao said in a deep voice: "It's not that we don't want to break through the mediocrity, but we even transferred the overlord iron cavalry, and also requisitioned a lot of cavalry, but we still can't break through, because Wei also transferred its elite tiger and leopard cavalry to 5,000 troops and killed them in Hanzhong."
When the overlord iron cavalry wanted to use the advantage of cavalry to sneak attack Nanzheng, it happened to collide with the tiger and leopard cavalry, and they also wanted to sneak attack Nanzheng. ”
"Wei Guo's abacus is good enough!" When Chen Gong heard this, he was a little stunned.
"Who's to say it isn't!" Shi Tao smiled bitterly: "Everyone wants Hanzhong, but they have the restraint to not want to fight, and the result is the current situation, otherwise if we continue to fight, it will be equivalent to a bloody battle between us and the Wei army, let Zhang Lu pick up a cheap!" ”
"Shangyong is now guarding Yang Bai, the general under Zhang Lu, right?" Chen Gong's expression moved slightly.
"Hmm!"
Shi Tao nodded and said: "If this person says that he is good at fighting, not necessarily, but he is good at guarding, then it is certain, he relies on 8,000 soldiers and horses, maneuvering between Wu and Wei, and now he can still maintain Shangyong City, he is a general!" ”
"What the Military Aircraft Department wants to know is, since this battle is now deadlocked, what does the Flying Tiger Battalion mean, whether it will be defeated or withdrawn?"
Chen Gong looked at Lu Bu and asked.
This time, Lu Bu, who has always fought bravely, also scratched his head at this time: "If you fight, it's boring, the Wei army is making trouble, we can't enter Hanzhong, but if we don't fight, I don't seem to be able to lose this face!" ”
"The general wants to increase his troops?" Chen Gong asked tentatively: "Push forward hard!" ”
"I'd like to increase my troops!"
Lu Bu smiled slightly bitterly, and said: "But Zhang Xiu is staring at me, if I increase my troops, he will also increase my troops, Nanyang is faster than Jingzhou, and it makes little sense, unless, I am willing to pour the whole army of the Flying Tiger Army out of the nest and fight a decisive battle with the Wei army, which is possible to take Hanzhong!" ”
Desperate to kill to the end, he believed that the victory would definitely be his own, but the casualties would be heavy.
"Don't think about this proposal!"
Chen Gong hurriedly shook his head and said: "The Military Aircraft Department is now fully preparing for the Battle of Sichuan, the Flying Tiger Army will be the main force of the Battle of Sichuan, if you fight to the death with the Wei Army, it will have a great impact on the Battle of Sichuan!" ”
"It was because of the Battle of Irichuan that I restrained myself, otherwise I would have copied Nanyang directly!"
Lu Bu said in a deep voice, he naturally understood the current task of the Military Aircraft Department, and also understood that the Flying Tiger Army was not suitable to start a war with the Nanyang Wei Army, but he couldn't do it when he retreated from Hanzhong: "But if we don't fight them, we can only stalemate, and I don't want to retreat!" ”
"Stalemate?" Chen Gong frowned: "This is not a way, Jingzhou is mediocre, this road is not easy to walk, and the grain is not easy to pass, and it costs a lot!" ”
"Mr. Gongtai, what the general means, it is better to set up a branch military camp in Shangyong, with Chen Wu as the general of Shangyong, lead the troops to guard Shangyong, fight a long battle, and if there is a chance, kill into Hanzhong!" Shi Tao said: "As for the grain road, they can only repair bridges and roads, anyway, now Pang Dudu and they also have a plan to build roads, and they can use their strength!" ”
"That's a good suggestion!"
When Chen Gong heard this, he groaned for a while, and said: "I will mention it to the military aircraft department, but I remind you that the Flying Tiger Battalion should focus on Peicheng, the battle of entering Sichuan will start soon, at most one year, when the time comes, the army will march westward, and the Flying Tiger will be the vanguard, and it will not be difficult to fight Peicheng, but there is a Pujia Pass behind Peicheng, which is a natural danger in Sichuan!" ”
"We are also thinking about how we can restrain the geographical advantages of Pujiaguan!"
Shi Tao stood up, walked to the side of the sand table, and said: "This pass, if you attack it hard, at least you will have to throw the lives of tens of thousands of erlang on it!" ”
"What I'm thinking about is whether Peicheng should be knocked down in advance!" Lu Bu looked at the sand table with sharp eyes: "If you are afraid, when you enter Sichuan in the future, let Guan Yu and Zhang Fei lead their troops to retreat to Peicheng and enter Pujia Pass, at that time, this pass will be really difficult to fight!" ”
"Is there a plan?" Chen Gong asked.
"Yes!"
Shi Tao took out a file from the bookcase next to him, handed it to him, and said: "This is a plan made by the staff of the Flying Tiger Battalion, intending to send troops to attack Peicheng by surprise in December, when the weather is the coldest, the general will personally go south and dispatch five divisions of the Flying Tiger Battalion, nearly 60,000 people, to pull out this one stronghold!" (To be continued......)