Chapter 79 Xuande teaches his son
Secondly, Zhang Fei’s headquarters cooperated with Chen Deng and Xiapi County soldiers to intercept Yangdu’s enemy Yin Li, while Guan Yu cooperated with Lu Su and led his headquarters plus Donghai County soldiers to intercept Linyi His enemies were Sun Guan and Sun Kang.
Zhao Yun and Tian Yuze were responsible for leading their headquarters to raid Jiqiu and surrounded Wu Dun in the city, unable to escape.
The whole plan is to focus on encirclement of points and supplement with reinforcements.
On every route, Liu Bei's army has superior strength, at least two or three times that of the enemy.
In this case, the reinforcements of the Taishan bandits will naturally eat as much as they can. Once they are successfully eaten, they will immediately take advantage of the situation and besiege the city.
It doesn’t matter if you don’t eat it. As long as you can continue to block the opponent and prevent them from having a chance to rescue Kaiyang, you will win.
There is no food in Kaiyang City. Even if the remaining food is collected from the people, it may only be able to last for a month at most. By then, the only way is to surrender.
As for the backbone and leader Kaiyang, several other strongholds could only be defeated one by one.
I had previously estimated Zang Ba’s food inventory, plus the information gained from this trip to Kaiyang.
Liu Feng judged that Zang Ba might only have enough food to last until the summer harvest.
Now all of a sudden, 40,000 shi of grain trade can only support them until April at most.
It is precisely for this reason that Zang Ba asked the Mi family to start importing grain to Kaiyang in March.
The best time to start is from mid-to-late March to early April.
The period from now to March can be used to train soldiers.
The current combat strength of Danyang soldiers is not because they really can't fight, but because their confidence was shattered by Cao Cao, coupled with many reasons such as the corruption of military discipline and extremely poor organization.
As long as they are replaced with qualified generals, and after two or three months of recovery training and morale building, they will at least be able to handle a medium-intensity war.
After three months, the soldiers were fully trained. Even if Zang Ba became suspicious, it would be too late to buy food.
Liu Feng even felt that as long as his side moved quickly enough to block Wu Dun, half the battle would be won.
Although Liu Bei's attitude was a little cold, he was obviously still dissatisfied with Liu Feng going out and taking the blame.
You must know that this only caused Liu's mother and Tian to complain about him, but they still talked about Liu Feng every day.
As long as he talks about Liu Feng, he will also talk about Liu Bei.
No wonder Liu Bei looked cold.
However, although his face was full of displeasure, his body honestly accepted Liu Feng's plan, and then looked through it carefully.
The completeness and novelty of this plan gave Liu Bei a great shock and surprise.
Previously, he had no impression of Liu Feng's so-called battle plan and thought it was an ordinary plan.
But now after seeing this silk book, I realized that Liu Feng's battle plan was completely different from what he imagined.
The so-called battle plans in this era are generally made by the commander alone.
Even if the general wants to brainstorm ideas, he will call people together and listen to everyone's opinions.
But the final decision is always in the hands of the general, and the plan will ultimately be drawn up by him. Others, even the deputies, will not know the entire plan until the battle begins.
It is precisely for this reason that in ancient wars, there were often strange situations where the army instantly collapsed after a general was unexpectedly killed in battle, and could no longer fight.
Because they really didn’t know how to fight at that time, and all their plans were in the hands of the general. Once the general died, no one would know.
Under this situation, how could everyone not panic.
But the plan drawn up by Liu Feng was extremely detailed, even to the point of taking the trouble.
The transportation and storage of food, the place where troops were gathered, the time and marching route were carefully described, and even the rest camps were marked.
At the same time, for specific details such as marching, camping, and fighting, we also took into account some frequent unexpected situations and made detailed response strategies. It can be said that if these situations occur, there is no need for the commander to make a decision. The commanders and commanders below can rely on this response strategy to solve the problem.
This greatly shocked Liu Bei and brought his tactical vision to a whole new level.
Although there are still many shortcomings in various strategies and tactics, and Liu Bei even discovered at least one fatal flaw in them, such a combat plan has made Liu Bei refreshing.
"Feng'er By gathering all the Danyang soldiers under Kaiyang City, do you think too highly of Cao Bao or underestimate Zang Ba?”
"Do you really think that with Cao Bao's ability, you can trap Zang Ba in Kaiyang City?"
Liu Bei's sudden words scared Liu Feng into a cold sweat and he reacted suddenly.
Yes, how could I be so stupid? I just want to use the Danyang soldiers of Cao Bao and Xu Dan, who are currently the most powerful, to block the door and use their superior strength to frighten Zang Ba.
But he didn’t expect that with Zang Ba’s ability, he might be able to see through his plan very quickly.
Once he went out of the city to fight in the field, although Danyang's soldiers were numerous and powerful.
But Zang Ba has strategic initiative and can even create fighter planes that can use more to defeat fewer.
With Zang Ba's ability, if Cao Bao can block him for one night, it is his extraordinary performance.
Once the Danyang soldiers are defeated, their side will immediately lose everything.
The combat effectiveness of the Danyang soldiers has been declining year by year. The Battle of Xuzhou was completely defeated by Cao Cao, and their morale and self-confidence had already hit rock bottom.
Not to mention that in this operation, Cao Bao also had to bring along Xu Dan, a half-hearted friendly force who did not know whether we were the enemy or not.
According to Liu Feng's own judgment, if he really followed his plan, the probability of Zang Ba defeating the Danyang soldiers and breaking out of the siege was at least 80%.
As long as the Danyang soldiers are defeated, the four thousand elites in Zang Ba's hands will become living chess without any constraints.
And any of our own side's reinforcements along the way will be surrounded by enemies from both sides, and will be in a dilemma.
Once Zang Ba appears behind him, everything will immediately fall apart.
If Zang Ba moves fast enough, he can even wipe out the Xuzhou Army within three days.
"Do you understand?"
Seeing Liu Feng sweating profusely, Liu Bei smiled proudly, little guy, you are still a bit young.
When it comes to fighting, your father is still your father.
No, even if there is no war, he is still your father.
"Feng'er, a soldier, must not be careless in major affairs of the country."
Liu Bei began to educate his son. In these troubled times, how could he not be knowledgeable in military matters?
So, Liu Bei analyzed Liu Feng carefully: "Feng'er, I can see that you have put your heart into this plan, with clear priorities and clear focus. Overall, it is good. A father of twenty...at your age, he may not be as good as you, so don't be discouraged."
Brother Big Ear was afraid that he had hit Liu Feng too hard just now and made Liu Feng lose his energy and confidence, so he spoke. He first encouraged and praised, and then got to the point: "But the war is of vital importance, and there is no room for sloppiness, let alone any luck."
"I know that you want to use waste, and use the Danyang soldiers. The large number of people can scare Zang Ba from leaving the city."
"But when Zang Ba faced the Yellow Turban Army at the Qingxu border in the past, he dared to attack the Yellow Turban Army's formation with a thousand people, but it was dozens. Are the ten thousand yellow scarves not as good as Cao Bao’s ten thousand men?”
"In the military, you must not be self-centered, let alone underestimate the enemy."
"For so many years as my father, I have led the army. The worst thing I have lost is that I underestimated the enemy. I thought that the enemy's actions would be what I thought, but the results were often unexpected. ”
Speaking of this, Liu Bei sighed loudly, his eyes full of tiredness.
"A few years ago in Pingyuan, and later in Qingzhou, my father was tortured a lot by Tian Kai."
(End of this chapter)