Chapter 155 Guangling Deduction
“At present, Sun Ce’s troops have successfully crossed the river and attacked Dantu.”
Liu Feng asked the general to step forward and open a miniature map. This is Liu Feng The simple map marked based on the rough points in memory is no longer inferior to most maps of this era.
“Dantu is close to the sea and is the last narrow section of the river before it enters the sea. After the river passes Dantu, the mouth of the river enlarges and merges into the sea.”
“Therefore, Dantu is also Yangzhou It is an important stronghold on the northern line, and it is only less than twenty miles away from Qu'a. It is only because the Niuzhu defense line is more critical and has a higher level that it has not been taken seriously. "
Liu Feng first introduced the situation of Dantu, and then concluded: "With the combat power of the Sun family army, since Dantu has been captured now, Qu'a will probably be captured in the next two days."
"Capture Qu'a?"
The generals raised their heads in shock. Zhao Yun asked in confusion: "Isn't Qu'a the headquarters of Liu Yao? Sun Ce only had three or four thousand men. Although he crossed the river to capture Dan Tu, We have a foothold, but if we still want to attack Qu'a, we will probably lose more than we gain."
Tai Shici also nodded in agreement: "It is indeed as Zhao Wei said, if the attack on Qu'a is not effective. On the contrary, the Dan disciples may be at risk. Once the Dan disciples are lost, the Sun family army will be cornered and risk the entire army being annihilated."
Xu Sheng, Pan Zhang, Zhou Tai, Jiang Qin and others are obviously more vulnerable. They obey Liu Feng, and even if they have different opinions, they will not raise them in public.
But looking at their looks, they seemed to agree with Zhao Yun and Tai Shi Ci.
This is not surprising. Sun Ce has successfully crossed the river and captured Dantu. It is human nature to accept the enemy as soon as he sees fit.
It’s just that they don’t understand Sun Ce’s character, and they don’t know that Qu’a doesn’t have any troops at this time.
Liu Yao's heavy troops have been piled up on the Niuzhu front line. He only has a total of five or six thousand troops in the rear. Dantu can put a thousand and five thousand troops, which is already extremely important.
How many soldiers and horses Qu An can have, only two or three thousand will be able to hold him to death.
Even if there are three thousand, how can the mere county soldiers withstand the Sun family's old troops who violently beat up the Xiliang cavalry?
If Sun Ce can bear it, he will be a ghost.
Moreover, Sun Ce seemed to be surrounded by enemies, but in fact he was as stable as a rock.
The soldiers and horses in Jiangdong are mainly divided into three parts. Xue Li, Zuo Rong, and the powerful coalition of local nobles in Jiangdong represented by Liu Yao.
What Liu Yao can command relatively smoothly is the powerful coalition of local nobles in Jiangdong, but they are currently on the front line of Niuzhu and cannot move.
The remaining Xue Li and Zuo Rong nominally obeyed Liu Yao, but in essence formed an alliance, and Liu Yao was just the leader.
Whether you listen to Liu Yao's orders or not, and to what extent you listen, can change at any time.
Liu Yao is almost losing Lian Qu'a now, and Liu Feng doesn't believe that Xue Li and Zuo Rong can't change.
Xue Li was better off. If Liu Yao had foolishly gone to Zuo Rong, he might have been killed by this lunatic Zuo Rong after changing hands. That would have been a lot of fun.
But now that Xu Shao is still alive, even if Liu Yao is really out of his mind, he will dissuade Liu Yao. This can be assured.
"Sun Ce is a man of strong character, eager for success, and aggressive like fire. Once he gains momentum, it will surge out like a flood."
Liu Feng nodded at Dantu: "Dantu is His breaking point has been achieved, and he is likely to sweep Jiangdong next."
"Sweeping across Jiangdong?"
It's not that Zhao Yun and others don't believe Liu Feng, it's just that. I feel that Liu Feng's words are a bit too big. Is this Sun Ce really so great?
Tai Shici felt that he was not doing well. He was obviously very average. He couldn’t even beat me, so he was not a hero.
"Yes, sweeping across Jiangdong."
Liu Feng clearly remembered how the little overlord was blocked by the river for more than half a year. After crossing the river, he was like a fish in water, sweeping everything.
It’s just different from the history. Originally, when he crossed the river, he relied on his good friends Zhou Gongjin and the Zhou family, jumped back and stabbed Liu Yao in the back, sent troops directly from Danyang, and attacked Niuzhu, working together inside and outside. Under this, the powerful coalition forces of the Jiangdong gentry on the Niuzhu defense line were directly defeated.
This fierce backstab was equivalent to destroying Liu Yao's closest force. Even if he reorganized his troops later, there was no hope of suppressing Sun Ce.
Now that Sun Ce has crossed the river with his own strength, he doesn’t owe him any favors. I just wonder if the Zhou family will complain about the letter they sent there when they hear the news. ah.
"Everyone can wait and see. I think within three days, we will hear the news about Sun Ce's capture of Qu'a."
Liu Feng was very confident when he said this. He wanted to show off, but he Unexpectedly, the news that came later was so unexpected.
“If Sun Ce begins to sweep across Jiangdong, then there will be an opportunity for us here.”
As he spoke, Liu Feng introduced the topic to the point he was most concerned about: “That is our Xuzhou Army, do we want to cross the river?"
"We cross the river?"
Zhao Yun, Tai Shici and other generals looked at each other, obviously not expecting this at all.
Liu Feng nodded seriously: "What I want to say next is an important secret of our Xuzhou Army. All of you here are my Xuzhou generals and close confidants of my father and son. Therefore, Feng Cai dares to tell the truth, and you must not leak anything. "
In fact, things are not as tense as Liu Feng said. Liu Feng is actually lying to show his true feelings and love. Will go.
In fact, not to mention the neighbors of Yangzhou Mu Liu Yao and Left General Yuan Shu, Yuan Shao of Hebei, Liu Biao of Jingzhou and Cao Cao of Yanzhou are all worried and afraid of the possibility of Xuzhou's army going south.
I am afraid that only Li Jue, Guo Bang and Liu Zhang in Guanzhong have no time to care about this at the moment.
It's everyone's turn to leak information.
It’s just that the generals didn’t know this. They all looked solemn immediately and almost swore that they would not leak any information.
"You don't have to be like this. If Feng and my father don't believe you, how can you tell them all? The previous warning was just worried that you would be careless and unintentionally leak it."
After appeasing the generals, Liu Feng turned to the topic: "The Sun family has always had prestige in Jiangdong. During the time of Sun Wentai, it even improved with the powerful nobles. However, Sun Bofu was young and energetic, and was eager to obtain a piece of territory. As a result, Lu The family is so offended."
"The Jiangdong gentry are all united. Offending the Lu family is equivalent to offending the four major families. They will definitely be very disgusted with the Sun family's taking over Jiangdong, and Sun Ce I have already mentioned his temper and character. Such a quick-successful and hasty character will definitely have a fierce conflict with the local nobles. ”
"My father and I once discussed whether to let him cross the river, so that these nobles can know who is really easy to talk to."
At this point, all the generals burst into laughter, even Zhao Yunhe Taishi Ci was no exception.
You guys are very clear about the virtues of the noble clan.
Don’t think that Zhao Yun is really an old-fashioned person. In fact, he also has his own flexibility.
One incident fully proves that Zhao Yun is not a character who cannot change his past.
Zhao Yun was from Changshan County. At that time, Changshan County was under the rule of Han Fu. Yuan Shao and Gongsun Zan came together to fight for Jizhou. After Han Fu's fall, Yuan Shao took advantage and took control of Jizhou first. Then he broke the contract and refused to share it equally with Gongsun Zan.
Gongsun Zan was naturally furious and raised troops to attack Yuan Shao.
To be fair, which one of Yuan Shao and Gongsun Zan is better to the common people?
Of course it is Yuan Shao. Even if Yuan Shao is pretending, he must pretend to love the people.
So is Gongsun Zan good to aristocratic families?
This was simply the greatest insult to Gongsun Zan. Gongsun Zan himself came from a wealthy family, but he looked down upon the children of wealthy families the most in his life. He insulted that children of wealthy families should be slave laborers. This is not hard labor, but a position with heavy tasks and no prospects.
Because Gongsun Zan believes that if the children of a wealthy family do well, they will think that they are strong. If they do poorly, it means that the position you gave them is not good enough.
In this case, why should I give you a good job?
Since Yuan Shao is better for both civilians and powerful families, Zhao Yun chose to defect to Gongsun Zan at this critical point.
Yuan Shao and Gongsun Zan had just broken up, and the two had not really fought yet.
At this time, Yuan Shao had not been beaten by Gongsun Zan in front of the entire Jizhou people, and when he was tortured to the point that his self-confidence was gone, Zhao Yun just voted for Gongsun Zan. At that time, Gongsun Zan asked Zhao Yun, when all Jizhou obeys Yuan Shao, why did you abandon Yuan Shao and join me?
Zhao Yun replied because you love the people.
Gongsun Zan laughed and said nothing.
Liu Feng thought of this past incident, and he just wanted to say one thing to Zhao Yun, Uncle Zilong, you lied.
Liu Feng always thinks about this matter in his mind. If Uncle Zilong comes to argue with his father again in the future, he will use this matter to make Uncle Zilong ashamed.
At this time, although Liu Feng did not say it clearly in his words, the generals present also heard what Liu Feng meant.
Taishici thought carefully and said: "In this case, we really need to prepare early to cross the river, especially the city of Jiangdu. Our army still has to take it back as soon as possible. Otherwise, if it remains in the hands of Yuan Shu's army, it will not only affect Guangling The city is a danger and will cause trouble for our future actions."
Zhao Yun also nodded and agreed: "What Ziyi said is indeed correct."
Xu Sheng, Pan Zhang. , Zhou Tai, and Jiang Qin all agreed.
"What you are thinking is exactly what I want."
Liu Feng nodded and confirmed everyone's opinions, but his attitude suddenly changed again: "However, it is possible to pick up this Jiangdu City for nothing. "
" Picking it up for free? "
The generals all thought that their young master was out of his mind. Can such an important town be picked up for free?
Although Dantu and Jiangdu are not big, and the city defenses are crude, that is because in the past peaceful times, these places were not important and it was easy for everyone to travel.
Now is the time of war, so the value of these cities has naturally changed.
As long as Yuan Shu can hold Jiangdu, he can stop the Xuzhou army from marching south to Yangzhou, and he can counterattack Guangling at any time. How could he be willing to give up?
Liu Feng’s guess is well-founded.
First, he knew that the crippled Qiao Rui tribe had been withdrawn, and only Sun Ce's tribe remained in Jiangdu.
Secondly, Sun Ce's foundation is in Jiangdong, and the little overlord is very ambitious. How can he be willing to serve as a door for Yuan Shu, and still be squeezed into a small town like Jiangdu.
Third, although Sun Ce is arrogant, he is a master tactician. He could not fail to see that defending Jiangdu and attacking Dantu would provoke both the Xuzhou Army and the Yangzhou Army at the same time.
For Sun Ce, the best plan is to return Jiangdu City to the Xuzhou Army in exchange for the Xuzhou Army not to interfere. Even if it is just a temporary non-interference, Sun Ce is confident that he can lay a foundation in Jiangdong.
Liu Feng laid out these analyses, so he advocated not rushing to attack Jiangdu first, and then wait and see.
If Sun Ce's army in Jiangdu has not withdrawn within half a month, Liu Feng will not be polite to him and will directly eat them and teach Sun Ce a lesson.
After hearing this, Zhao Yun, Tai Shici and others all thought it was okay.
Anyway, time is on the Xuzhou Army's side, and they have been busy with the summer harvest recently. In order to regain the summer harvest that was previously delayed due to the Battle of Guangling, the Xuzhou Army directly mobilized 5,000 troops with weaker combat capabilities to go out of the city to help the people collect grain.
Before the action, Liu Feng repeatedly emphasized the need to pay attention to military discipline. Anyone who dared to commit acts of burning, killing, and looting would be killed without mercy, no matter how great their previous achievements were.
Liu Feng didn't know if he could be like that army of later generations, which was innocent of any crime, regarded the people as his parents, and truly treated the army and the people like fish and water.
But at least he didn't want his army to loot and abuse innocent people.
With the addition of these new forces, the summer harvest near Guangling went very quickly, and the delayed progress was regained.
If we go to fight Jiangdu now, it will really delay things.
Afterwards, everyone excitedly began to deduce on Liu Feng's simple silk map.
One will deduce how to attack and develop if he is Sun Ce, and the other will deduce how to counterattack and restrict Sun Ce if he is Liu Yaofang.
When Liu Feng saw this scene, he immediately became interested: "Uncle Zilong, teacher, Wen Xiang, if you are really interested, you might as well divide into two groups, one party will play Sun Ce, and the other party will play Liu Yao, and deduce one or two , I can also provide you with troop strength information."
Everyone became more interested, so Liu Feng told the other party his estimated troop strength.
Liu Feng remembered that in the Jiangdong area, the Niuzhu defense line had 13,000 to 15,000 elite soldiers. Xue Li has 15,000 men and Zhe Rong has 18,000 men. However, their combat effectiveness is much lower than that of the elite Niuzhu defense line.
Danyang and Wujun supported Liu Yao's powerful alliance. Historically, after the Niuzhu defense line was breached, nearly 20,000 people were sent to Liu Yao. However, these 20,000 people were not as good as their quality or equipment. , are far inferior to before.
In this life, Sun Ce broke through from Dan Tu. Although he successfully crossed the river, he did not do any harm to Liu Yao's core force, the Niuzhu Legion, and it was obvious that he would be sniped by Jiangdong's powerful tribes.
So the situation is definitely more difficult than in history.
So Liu Feng and the Xuzhou Army will have more time to think and deliberate, so it is best to wait and see for the time being.
Liu Feng's wishful thinking was naturally that he hoped that Sun Ce could help him clean up the Jiangdong gentry first, and then he would take Xu and Yu's gentry there to pick fruits. In this way, it would be much easier to reconcile the factional issues in Liu Bei's group. .
Because the territory is large, it is easy to break up the gentry’s alliance.
For example, for the Jiangdong gentry, if you only have Yangzhou, then no matter how you arrange people, they will still be together.
But if you break the Jiangdong gentry into three pieces, one going to Xuzhou and the other to Yuzhou, then it will be exponentially more difficult for them to unite.
Those who are beautiful officials and those who are bitter officials are definitely not on the same page.
Those far away and those in the local area will definitely not be able to contact each other.
There is a huge difference between being an official and not being an official.
Not to mention Bo Fu cleaning the warriors with stiff necks in Jiangdong for the Liu family.
Everyone was chatting enthusiastically. Taishi Ci played Sun Cejun. He actually left only 500 people to guard Dantu, and concentrated the main force of 3,500 people to continue to attack Quyang. He did not ask for contributions, but wanted to general Liu Yao. Being blocked in the city, he really succeeded.
As a result, Jiangdong Army suddenly lost its brain. The Niuzhu Army, Xue Li, and Zuo Rong were defending against each other. No one dared to quickly return reinforcements for fear of being plotted by the other two units. .
Liu Yao's procrastinating and slow return of reinforcements immediately bought Sun Ce's army a lot of time. When the reinforcements came from Dajiang, they not only stabilized Dantu's defense, but also had enough troops to conquer Qu'a and capture Liu Yao alive.
Once Liu Yao was captured, the Jiangdong Allied Forces completely lost their leader and fell apart.
Xue Li and Zuo Rong are just self-reliant, but the Niuzhu Army also has considerable internal problems. Generals such as Fan Neng, Zhang Ying, and Yu Mi all want to compete for the leadership of the Niuzhu Army. It won't reach the point of internal strife, but there is already implicit opposition between them and they cannot participate in the war.
After deducing this situation, Taishi Ci, Zhao Yun and other generals were a little confused.
If this is the case, then Sun Ce will be able to occupy Wu County and Danyang County in a short period of time and connect them with Yuan Shu's Jiangbei County. This will directly force him to threaten Guangling and Xuzhou from both sides.
By that time, it will not be Xuzhou going to Jiangdong to pick peaches, but Yuan Shu and Sun Ce will go north to Guangling again to fight the second Guangling defense battle.
However, Liu Feng was not anxious at all, which surprised Zhao Yun, Tai Shici and others.
Could it be that the young master already has a solution?
Liu Feng smiled and explained at this time: "Uncle Zilong, teacher, your deduction must bring into play the personalities and perspectives of Sun Ce and Liu Yao. Only such results require our attention. If The decision made by the teacher may be similar to that of Sun Bofu in reality, so it would be too contrary to reality for the teacher to stick to Qu'a."
"How could Liu Yao dare to stick to Qu'a? , and the counselors and close advisors around him would never agree. These people are very powerful, and they are all famous people, so unless Sun Ce hits Qu A first and directly blocks Liu Yao, Liu Yao will be killed now. He may have left Qu'a and headed west."
Liu Feng's analysis is well-founded. Historically, Liu Yao cherished his life very much. Even with Sun Ce's light troops, he never blocked Liu Yao once.
The opponent not only ran fast, but also ran early. Under Xu Shao's suggestion, his positioning was exquisite, allowing Sun Ce to miss every time and successfully turning into Yuzhang. He was called the best positioning in Jiangdong.
Zhao Yun and Tai Shici still had some disbelief on their faces, but Xu Sheng and Pan Zhang looked indifferent. They already trusted Liu Feng to the point of blind obedience.
(End of this chapter)