There is one thing to say: Zhu Ran's strategic vision, not to mention compared with Zhou Yu, even compared with people like Lu Meng and Lu Su, is not even a bit inferior.
Even Zhou Yu, who was in Jiangxia County, was able to resist the threats posed by civil servants while taking time to observe the public security situation. He keenly pointed out that the key to breaking the situation now lies with the public security. However, Zhu Ran's vision always lies in the two counties of Yangtze River and Wuling County. Wander around the place.
It wasn't until Zhou Yu wrote a letter to remind Zhu Ran that Zhu Ran suddenly realized what he was doing.
Yes, the public security, as long as the public security is not lost, then Shi Bao in Lingyang will not dare to go south easily, and the Jiangling Navy must also keep the food route open.
Even if it is a hard loss, it is not our Soochow Army that will suffer the greatest loss.
In other words, there is no need for Zhu Ran to compete with Zhang Xi on the Yangtze River. He can send reinforcements overland to relieve the public security siege.
As long as the 30,000 Shu troops crossing the river are defeated outside the public security area. It doesn't even have to be completely defeated. As long as the Shu thieves are dragged into a protracted war, the four counties in Jingnan will be safe.
Moreover, in Zhou Yu's letter, he also analyzed his judgment with Zhu Ran - Zhou Yu believed that the Shu Kingdom was not ready for a full-scale war, so with Zhang Xi's intelligence and strategy, he should not choose to deliberately The practice of expanding the scale of war.
In other words, Zhang Xi should not continue to send more troops to the south bank of the Yangtze River. If he cannot quickly conquer the police, he will most likely choose to maintain the status quo.
Although there are many soldiers involved in this war, the scale should be limited to the extent of border friction.
This is Zhou Yu's judgment of the overall situation. It not only requires sufficient military capabilities, but also requires a high enough political vision. Zhu Ran is even more inferior.
But the good thing about Zhu Ran is that he is not a headstrong person, and he is very convinced of Zhou Yu's judgment. He immediately began to mobilize Lukou troops, and mobilized ten thousand people, led by Liu Lue, to rescue Wuling County, and obeyed Lu Dai's command.
As for Zhu Ran, he will continue to stay in Lukou, but the navy will not be dispatched anymore and will only be used to guard the Lukou stronghold.
As Liu Lue led 10,000 Dongwu troops to Wuling County and joined Lu Dai and Lu Zheng, he also conveyed Zhu Ran's latest strategic arrangements.
To be honest, Lu Dai and Lu Ju did not see the importance of public security. Even after Lu Dai led troops to Wuling County first, he immediately made arrangements for Lingyang in an attempt to retake Lingyang County. .
But the problem is that Lu Dai only brought 10,000 people over, and the Wuxi barbarians in Wuling County were so noisy that Lu Ju's troop concentration could not be completed for a while. In addition, Shi Bao has not had any troops since he captured Liangyang. The movement made Lu Dai hesitate.
With the arrival of Liu Lue, bringing Zhu Ran's new orders and related explanations, Lu Dai also fell into thinking.
Lu Dai is also a famous general in Soochow, and he is already fifty now. If he had not stayed at the border of Jiaozhou and dealt with the scholars all year round, he would not be as famous as he is now.
Although Lu Dai is indeed not as good as Zhou Yu and others in terms of strategic vision, as long as someone mentions it, the gap in level between him and Zhu Ran is really not that big.
After understanding Zhu Ran's intentions, Lu Dai also began to adjust his combat arrangements.
He left 5,000 men for Lu Zhi and asked him to cooperate with the remaining county soldiers in Wuling County to defend Wuling County first and watch Shi Bao not far to the north. He led 5,000 Changsha soldiers to bypass Lingyang County and go straight to Lu Zhi. Go to the police.
Of course, taking into account that Shi Bao from Lingyang County is not incompetent, it is necessary to consider that Shi Bao may have noticed his movements in advance and divided his forces to intercept them. Therefore, Lu Dai asked Liu Luo to bring his 10,000 Lukou reinforcements, two days later than him. Departure on the day of departure.
As long as Shi Bao dares to divide his troops to intercept him, Na Liuluo will immediately change his route and attack Ling Yang.
Of course it would be best if we could capture it, as it would eliminate the threat from Wuling County, but if we couldn't capture it, we could at least force Shi Bao to return to the army, allowing Lu Dai to successfully bypass Lingyang and support the police.
With his own 5,000 people supporting the public security, if the military strength comparison between Shu and Wu is further reduced, even if the enemy cannot retreat, it can still be done by holding back 30,000 Shu troops.
In this way, most of the threats to the four counties in Jingnan have been eliminated.
The rest is probably to work hard and be patient, and finally see how the upper level ends.
In this way, after Lu Dai made the arrangements, he set off immediately. He stayed a little two days late and set off from Wuling County. Shi Bao in Lingyang City felt a little uncomfortable.
The reconnaissance cavalry sent by Shi Bao had indeed noticed Lu Dai's whereabouts. Lingyang was only more than eighty miles away from Wuling County.
Shi Bao really wanted to divide his troops out of the city to intercept Lu Dai's advance. After all, according to intelligence, the opponent only had 5,000 people.
If you find a suitable place to ambush, it is possible to severely damage the enemy.
But the problem is that just when Shi Bao led the army and was less than twenty miles away from the city, he once again received a report from the reconnaissance cavalry - there was a Dongwu Army force of 10,000 people, once again setting off from Wuling County to the north Come.
Shi Bao immediately broke into a cold sweat.
In order to ensure the success rate of the ambush and interception, Shi Bao divided his troops this time and went out with 8,000 soldiers. He only set up false flags in Lingyang County and pretended to have a large number of troops, but in fact only 2,000 soldiers were left to garrison.
If someone tried to trick the tiger away from the mountain, things would be in trouble.
Shi Bao thought about it carefully and decided to give up the task of dividing the troops to intercept. He immediately led the army back to Lingyang. At the same time, he quickly warned Zhou Tai and Li Qiu behind him that Wu Jun, the major shareholder, was coming to help from the direction of Wuling.
After all, they still have 20,000 soldiers in their hands. Even if 5,000 soldiers go to rescue them, they can still intercept them.
In fact, Li Qiu and Zhou Tai were not incompetent, and they would not relax their vigilance in the direction of Wuling just because Shi Bao was in front.
As a qualified general, when going to the battlefield, you must naturally consider various situations. Whether you are good or not depends only on whether you consider everything comprehensively or not.
Both Li Qiu and Zhou Tai were somewhat prepared for the possible reinforcements in the direction of Wuling. It cannot be said that they did not have any emergency plans. But the problem was that because Shi Bao had blocked the passage from Wuling County to the Public Security Bureau, their preparations were indeed Not enough.
After receiving Shi Bao's warning, Li Qiu and Zhou Tai naturally launched their own emergency plans. The two discussed it and decided to focus on one encirclement point for reinforcements.
Li Qiu stayed and continued to monitor the movements of the public security city, while Zhou Tai led 10,000 soldiers to intercept the reinforcements from Wuling County.
But there is an intelligence gap inside.
Shi Bao never thought that the 10,000 people who stayed here were also going to the police. He thought that the 10,000 people were going to Lingyang where he was stationed.
Therefore, Shi Bao only told Li Qiu and Zhou Tai that 5,000 Soochow reinforcements had gone to the police.
Based on this information, Zhou Tai led 10,000 soldiers to intercept the 5,000 Soochow reinforcements. This was not underestimating the enemy.
But then, Zhoutai almost suffered a big loss.
After arriving at the interception point selected in advance, Zhou Tai did have a head-on confrontation with Lu Dai. At the beginning of the battle, Zhou Tai did suppress Lu Dai's reinforcements and successfully blocked Lu Dai's army from marching to the police. .
According to this rhythm, as long as Zhou Tai continues to block for three to five days and consumes the morale and number of soldiers of Lu Dai's army, victory is not impossible.
But the problem was that in the afternoon of the next day, 10,000 Lukou troops led by Liu Lu suddenly appeared on the battlefield.
The situation on the battlefield became that Zhou Tai's 10,000 men were fighting against the Soochow Army's 15,000 men. The most terrible thing was that the timing of Liu Lue's appearance was also very good. When Zhou Tai commanded the army and Lu Dai was fighting head-on, Liu Lue Suddenly burst out from the flank and caught Zhou Tai off guard.
After a melee, Zhoutai was defeated and retreated thirty miles to the village. Only about 7,000 of the 10,000 people were left. However, the Soochow Army on the opposite side suffered little losses and still had more than 13,000 troops.
Now, it was Zhoutai's turn to fall into passive defense. He could only go up and down the main road and try his best to defend and support.
Zhou Tai also knew that if this continued, he might not be able to stop him for long. He could only ask Li Qiu under the police for help.
And it's not that Li Qiu doesn't want to save Zhoutai, but the actual situation makes Li Qiu very entangled.
Li Qiu still has less than 10,000 soldiers, and the troops used to guard the four gates of the Public Security Bureau are already very thin. If more troops are deployed to support Zhoutai, then the defenders in the Public Security Bureau can completely break through the city gates to intercept and leave the city. Come to meet the Soochow reinforcements.
Once the Soochow reinforcements, numbering about 10,000 people, enter the Gong'an City, even if Li Qiu saves Zhou Tai, they will have no hope of breaking through the Gong'an City.
But if Zhoutai has no reinforcements and cannot stop the Soochow army's attack, Li Qiu's less than 10,000 soldiers alone seem to be unable to stop the arrival of the Soochow reinforcements.
At that time, it would not be Li Qiu attacking the police, but Li Qiu would be attacked from both inside and outside by the police and Soochow's reinforcements.
This is also a doomed ending.
Therefore, after weighing back and forth, Li Qiu decided to send the entire army to rescue Zhou Tai.
Yes, no one was left behind. He immediately withdrew from the surrounding police and went to join Zhou Tai.
Li Qiu thought about it. He and Zhou Tai combined had about 15,000 people, while the Soochow Army, including reinforcements and the defenders in the public security city, had about 17,000 or 8,000 people. There was a huge difference in the strength of the two sides. Not big.
If Soochow's reinforcements are allowed to enter the public security guard, the Han will not have any advantage in a siege battle.
It would be better to take advantage of the arrival of Soochow reinforcements to attract the Soochow army, including the defenders in Gong'an City, to go out to fight and decide the outcome in a field battle. As long as they can win in the field and the enemy army is defeated, they can take advantage of the situation and capture Gong'an. City is not impossible.
As for the field battle, Li Qiu is still sure of winning.
After all, everyone knows about the field combat capabilities of the Soochow Army.
(End of chapter)
