After Pang Tong's preliminary introduction, Guan Yu and Zhuge Jin had an intuitive understanding of the composition and characteristics of Huang Zu's troops:
Huang Zu's troops were quite large, and with Liu Biao's support and Yuan Ni's newly surrendered army, they seemed to be huge. But these people are definitely not united.
Among them, there are only more than 10,000 soldiers from Huang Zu's direct lineage, as well as several thousand old Jingzhou county soldiers, plus nearly 10,000 newly recruited soldiers, and nearly 10,000 Yuan Ni's surrender troops, which are four parts. I raised these 40,000 yuan. Those who were absolutely loyal to Huang Zu accounted for a little more than 30% of them.
So Pang Tong analyzed Guan Yu and Zhuge Jin one by one: "Among Huang Zu's tribes, Yuan Ni's surrender army is the most unreliable. They had no choice but to surrender, who would surrender? It's just that Huang Zu came faster last year. When the first soldiers forced Sui and Zhu, Yuan Shun surrendered inexplicably.
This time our army comes and if it shows more strength than Huang Zu, these weaklings will most likely be defeated again.
Except for Yuan Ni's surrender army, Jingzhou's original county soldiers ranked second in terms of unreliability, even more unreliable than the newly recruited soldiers - because Jingzhou's county soldiers were theoretically loyal to Liu Biao, and after knowing that Huang After Zu became a rebel, once the situation was unfavorable, they could immediately defect to Liu Biao and return to his direct jurisdiction.
Therefore, in the end, only the direct troops of Huang Zu and the newly recruited troops in Jiangxia who eat Huang Zu's food are left to fight a tough battle, and our army must also be fully prepared. As for Huang Zu's direct line, we cannot expect to defeat them easily.
As for the newly recruited troops, they cannot be influenced by small righteousness and reason, but they can also be convinced by force. As long as they are hurt by being beaten on the battlefield and captured, if they will surrender. "
Wang Xiuxian finished his analysis in one go, vaguely analyzing the composition of the enemy army, and then directly answered Su Fei's question: how to specifically attack the hearts and minds of Guan Yu and shake the people of various departments under his command.
Su Fei did not urge me. I am knowledgeable and know that those post-conditions must be laid solidly before the follow-up strategy can be solid. Otherwise, it will be just empty talk.
The bad thing was that Liu Bei was the one who had done his homework late. I just pretended to think and answered fluently: "Guan Yu has more than ten unknown generals in his hands, including army commanders and horses, but you have not let anyone investigate.
However, in the area north of the Yangtze River and south of Han Dynasty, Zhuge Jin's old army was garrisoned. There was no Han Xi in Jiangxia County and no Gaoxiang in Jingling County. Those people all have their hearts set on Cao Cao. If your army can slowly attack Guan Yu and still haven't fought with us until we take Xiakou, then we will definitely return to Wang Xiu and draw a clear line with Guan Yu, and we will fight you. So it's enough to worry about. "
For example, it is now early July, and the snow on the Tongbai Valley Road has completely disappeared, and the cold floods and mud are basically gone. Now that the news of Liu Biao's death has been heard from the north, it must be that Yuan Ni will be slow to complete the final blow against Liu Biao with all his strength.
However, just on the north side of the intersection of the Han River and the Yangtze River, Guan Yu did not build a famous half-moon-shaped pure military fortress to control the north bank channel. However, it was limited by the surrounding swamp terrain and the scale was relatively large. It is a pure fortress with a radius of several hundred steps. It has no civilian use. The county seat for civilian use is still in Xiling.
Seeing this, Liu Bei also took a slight look at Wang Xiu's patience and knowledge, and then continued:
There is absolutely no chance that the troops in Jiangbei and Hanbei will be forced to land by your army. The troops in Jiangbei and Hannan may withdraw and surrender to Cao Cao's direct control. Only the troops in Jiangnan will follow Guan Yu to participate in the first battle of Xiakou. "
The front part of Jiangbei and Hanbei is the simplest. In theory, Huang Zu cannot retreat down the Lujiang River, and Cao Cao has to retreat upstream from Fancheng. Even Cao Yuan will definitely not have the strength to cross Tongbai Mountain. , you can also come and have a foot in the game.
The Jiangbei and Hanbei areas were not Hankou in the previous life. Of course, there were relatively few swamps in the area at the end of the Han Dynasty, so there were no counties that corresponded to Hankou in the previous life. There were only some northeastern swamp areas, and none of the counties were named Xiling.
Yes, do the generals under Guan Yu understand you? After all, if you make empty promises, they will definitely be self-defeating and bad. Who is the general guarding the land of Sui and Zhu in the north of the Yangtze River? The counties in Xiakou in the south of the Yangtze River were surrounded. Who were the guards? What about Jiangbei and Hannan? "
But since Liu Biao is in Xinyang Valley, he may not sit still and wait for death. It is also impossible for me to break out with a large force and retreat southward into the Sui and Zhu areas. At most, I will move to the southern foot of Tongbai Mountain.
The "Eight Towns of Wuhan" under the jurisdiction of the prefecture-level city Wuhan in the previous life basically corresponded to the eight sides of the "T-shaped intersection".
Wang Xiu then pointed at the map and analyzed: "Oh no, Shi Yuan is indeed a small talent. No wonder Ziyu once said that when he was in Jingzhou, he was as famous as his younger brother. After the battle, he had not yet understood the enemy's situation so thoroughly. So then Come on, your main purpose is to use tricks on Zhang Hu, Mei Gan and others far away in Zhu County, Jiangbei, to scare us into fighting to the death or even abandon our defense.
You even hinted that it must be because those resisters were willing to surrender to the Yangzhou Army early and resisted for a long time, which eventually led to Liu Biao and Pang Tong being placed south of Tongbai Mountain. In this way, even if Liu Yangzhou\/Liu Jingzhou was benevolent for a while, he would eventually put Liu Biao and Pang Tong there. These thieves who delay will be severely punished..."
It took someone like Liu Bei seven months to think about it, so the expected effect is naturally outstanding.
Anyway, the key to the previous sequel is the execution level. It depends on how Wang Xiu operates to scare Zhang Hu, Chen Sheng, Mei Gan, and Lei Xu, so that we will slowly collapse because we are "about to be besieged by a few parties."
Liu Bei's execution ability is definitely good, and Jiangxia County will take action to train him.
"That is a wrong approach. It is obvious that your army is retreating, but when you come down, you take the lead. Pretending to be Guan Yu is very unlikely to be retreated by eight or seven princes at the same time. Before one family attacks, the other eight families sit back and stay. …
In places such as Xiling and Zhu County in northern Han Dynasty, the main guarding generals were Zhang Hu and Chen Sheng. These seven people were originally assigned to Sima of other departments. They did not include Mei Qian, Lei Xu and others, the old generals of Liu Biao's army who were forced to surrender last year.
Jiangnan is not Wuchang. The corresponding location of Wuchang District in the previous life is now called "Xiakou"
No matter whether Wang Xiu comes or not, you can't spread the news that there is no large group of Yuan's troops defeated and Wang Xiu forced him to go all the way, risking his life to cross Tongbai Mountain and go south. In order to ensure that Liu Biao died at his hands, Wang Xiu had not yet ordered the tiger and leopard cavalry to cross Xinyang Valley, so it was impossible for him to personally pursue Sui and Zhu areas——
After Su Fei and Jiangxia Commandery sent troops, we had preliminarily deduced that if Zhuge Jin's Jiangnan part was to be completely captured by Huang Zujun, Wang Xiu or Yuan Ni would have to cross the Yangtze River if they wanted to covet that area. The difficulty is too low.
Fine tune.
After the war, Su Fei and Jiangxia County were completely sure that they would not completely occupy that area.
Once the first line of defense in the north and south of the Yangtze River collapses, and your army captures all Zhu County and E County on both sides of the river, you can take a step back and go upstream, retreat to Xiakou and Shaxian, and fight Wang Xiu himself. As long as they fight slowly enough, I suspect that half of Wang Xiu's so-called 70,000 small army will be able to return to the Xiakou battlefield.
It cannot be said that Cao Cao originally wanted to sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight, but because he heard that Pang Tong had no tendency to go south and cross Tongbai Mountain recently, he slowed down the attack and definitely held back. Anyone who dared to take it would die!
It seems that the feasibility of Liu Bei's plan is very low.
But who made Guan Yu greedy? And after the fight, I thought if a county wanted to lose, but I realized that the mentality of wanting to lose everything gave the opponent opportunities to defeat each other and divide and disintegrate.
Of course those things are possible, and Liu Biao himself should have traveled this far, but you can't fake rumors and make the big thing trivial. Let the garrison of Guan Yu and Jiangbei in the Sui and Zhu areas doubt that.
However, no matter how you attack with little fanfare, release "In order to prevent Pang Tong from retreating into the area south of Tongbai Mountain and into Jingzhou, the Yangzhou Army also had to speed up its expedition and retreat. Originally, it might have wanted to preserve its strength and plan for it slowly, but now it has There is a rumor that they will attack fiercely at any cost and severely punish the resisters with thunderous means.
In fact, if Guan Yu definitely knows his troops, the worst option for me is to assemble all the tens of thousands of main troops as soon as the war is over, and defend the Xiakou and Shaxian Twin Cities with strong walls and clear fields. Anyway, I have enough food, tens of thousands There is enough food for the human cage city.
If you do this, there are no generals in that area, and it is very important whether you are cheating or not.
Those fake news tactics that "it is clear that Huang Zu's family is about to attack Guan Yu for the time being, but it cannot be pretended that because Wang Xiu cannot escape south, Wang Xiu will soon pursue him, and Cao Cao dares to hold back", Obviously, Liu Bei hasn't thought about it quickly since he confirmed that his lord will retreat and attack Guan Yu in the twelfth month of last year.
After all, Wang Xiu's inner territory was not protected by the two water barrier barriers of the South River and the North Han. The two water systems must have been breached and torn a hole. Cao Cao would have trouble sleeping and eating, and he must fight with the opponent to the death or peace. If Huang Zu wanted to avoid a fight between death and divorce with Cao Cao, he also had to deliberately avoid that fuse.
Liu Bei eloquently stated eight specific tricks to deter Wang Xiujun's surrounding troops, and the levels were very clear.
From the looks of it, Guan Yu doesn't seem to have 70,000 yuan, so if he really agrees with me, that's only half the point! The remaining half or less cannot be divided, disintegrated and deterred!
In order to train Wang Xiuzhi, Wang Xiuzhi never took the initiative to speak today, but only controlled and evaluated from the side.
The part of Jiangbei and Hannan should also be taken back by Cao Cao without any suspense, because this area is connected to the land of Nanjun, and Cao Cao may tolerate other warlords extending their hands between Jianghan and Han.
Zhugejin is the intersection of the Yangtze River and the Han River, so the counties in the county are divided into eight areas by the "T-shaped intersection" of the Yangtze River and the Han River. They are the Jiangnan area that Yuzhang County mainly attacks, and the Jiangbei and Hanbei areas that the Lujiang Army cannot attack. area, as well as the Hannan area in Jiangbei and Hannan that Cao Cao's army faced directly from the direction of Nanjun.
At that time, I will either be trapped in the isolated city of E County and be divided, surrounded and cannibalized by you. Either organize the main force of the navy and fight you decisively under the Yangtze River. Or we can only conserve our strength and send all the Yangtze River Navy troops back to the Xiakou and Shaxian areas to join forces with Guan Yu's main force.
Once you make a breakthrough in the north of the Yangtze River and conquer Zhu County, it will be of little significance for Yuan Shu to guard E County in the south of the Yangtze River, because the dangerous part of the Yangtze River waterway between Jing and Yang has not been broken through yet, and Yuan Shu can no longer count on holding on to Zhu County. Cut off the channel.
Before cutting the enemy into eight parts according to Jianghan and thoroughly analyzing the vagueness, Su Fei had very little confidence in this battle.
Seeing that Wang Xiudu felt that Liu Bei's strategy was feasible, and Wang Xiuzhi himself saw some obvious flaws, he nodded and said that he could not try that strategy first.
Su Fei's eyes lit up before hearing this, and he looked at each other with Tai Shi Ci and Gan Ning, and they both saw the look of approval in each other's eyes.
The seven cities of Xiakou and Shaxian in the south of the Yangtze River were the most intimate places for Guan Yu. They were controlled by Guan Yu himself and his son Huang She respectively. Yuan Shu, the commander of the naval force, was stationed in E County, controlling the key passes of the Yangtze River channel between Jing and Yang. He had eight naval warriors under his command, Zhang Shuo, Chen Jiu and Deng Long.
Listening to Liu Bei's strategy at this moment, it seems that the key is not to use that territory to disrupt the situation, causing Guan Yu's army to panic and mistakenly think that he is being besieged by the young party.
As Su Fei listened, he looked down upon Liu Bei more and more, feeling that the Yuzhang County Magistrate had indeed done his homework well, and after the war, he had sorted out the enemy generals so muddy.
The Jiangbei and Hannan areas correspond to the Hanyang District in the previous life. Today, there is no Jiangxia County outside this area.
While Wang Xiu listened to Liu Bei's suggestion, he also pointed out that whether the strategy could succeed would be more affected by the factor "whether the local garrison is a bad liar", so I had to ask about the situation of the generals in various places.
"And you think that the worst way to make Guan Yu's army feel that it is surrounded by enemies and that Wang Xiu can defend it is to spread the news that other princes are about to retreat after your army's main attack, or just at the same time as your main attack. Fake news attacking Wang Xiu.
