After Xuan's army withdrew, Xiao Yuan also began to keep the existing 100,000 troops in Yiyang, Puyang, and some important places in the city.
These 100,000 troops have a great effect.
While ensuring the safety of key roads in the rear of the attack, it can also be used as reinforcements that can be transferred to the front line at any time.
There are no problems with this deployment.
At this point, Qin's frontline troops attacking Liang, plus Zhao Mu's troops, totaled 300,000 troops.
Whether we need to increase our troops later depends on how far the war will go.
At the same time, Akagi.
The soldiers were very fast. After quickly seizing this place, Zhao Mu did not wait all the time. Instead, he swept through several surrounding counties with lightning speed.
But when they continued to advance, the Liang Kingdom, which was reacting, intercepted them in the Jinling area with more than 50,000 troops.
At this time, the main force of the Qin army had already joined forces. Shangguan Ruozheng and Zhao Mu were together. Before Xiao Yuan arrived, the two had also held some discussions.
Shangguanruo is a person who is good at strategy.
As a founding hero, there is no doubt about his contribution. He once vigorously promoted the military and political reforms in Qin. During the war, when Xiao Yuan was almost discouraged, he urged Xiao Yuan to overcome the immediate difficulties and must march! He corrected Xiao Yuan's wrong decisions several times and provided suggestions many times, which led to the Qin army's final victory.
On the basis that comprehensive strategy is higher than tactics, if Shangguan is the well-deserved chief counselor of the Qin Group, as long as he goes on an expedition with Xiao Yuan, he will often serve as a member of the army to discuss matters, or as a military advisor to offer wine.
Of course, Xiao Yuan has more than one adviser.
For example, Chen Yu, Lu Fan, Jia Fang, Tian Shou, etc., there are seven or eight in total.
Most of these people were talented people from Shu who came to seek refuge after the pacification of Sichuan and Shu. They were well-known in the local area. At that time, Xiao Yuan treated them personally and received them personally.
Some of the people among them may be outstanding in tactical planning, or be good at calculations, or be good at coming up with strange strategies, or have extremely strong ability to adapt to changes.
During this expedition, Tian Shi was among them.
Tian Shi is a man in his mid-twenties, thin, with a well-groomed beard on his chin. He has an ordinary appearance, but his eyes always reveal a shrewdness. He is good at seeing people's hearts, flexible and accurate. Analyze when to advance and when to retreat.
At this military meeting, there were many generals in the tent.
Shangguan Ruo took the lead and said: "Your Majesty's strategic plan is to use Chicheng as a springboard to continuously attack Liang Kingdom. Now this place and even the surrounding cities have been occupied by our army. In my opinion, the attack on the enemy forces in Jinling will be the last. It is better not to go on an all-out attack, but to formulate good tactics."
Hearing this, a Qin general said: "Our army has 300,000 troops. The army is pressing forward. Jinling Liang's army only has 50,000 troops. They cannot be defeated. There is no need to formulate tactics. In the opinion of the last general, it is better to attack by force."
"A brave man is aggressive, but this is actually a bad strategy. A strong attack will kill a thousand enemies and cause eight hundred losses to himself. Wouldn't it be better if Jinling could be properly pacified?" Shangguan Ruodao said.
As soon as he finished speaking, Tian Shou stood up: "I agree with Sir Shangguan's opinion. Jinling Mountain is still more than a hundred miles away from here. If the main force of our army fully presses in, reinforcements from Liang Kingdom will arrive soon. At that time, it will create a situation where the enemy troops occupy the city and resist desperately."
"Instead of doing this, it is better to send a small army first to test Jinling's strength. The other party will not be so nervous when they see that I don't have many troops. Maybe they can find some loopholes."
Zhao Mu heard this and started thinking about it.
Shangguan Ruo was moved in his heart and looked at Tian Shudao: "You have already thought of a countermeasure."
"It's hard to say now." Tian Zhi shook his head slightly.
However, his and Shangguan Ru's opinions were adopted by Zhao Mu, the temporary commander-in-chief. After consideration, the latter nodded and said:
"Okay, according to what the two gentlemen said, our army will first use 20,000 troops as the vanguard to launch a tentative attack on Jinling, led by General Wei Qing."
"General, take your orders!" Wei Qing immediately clasped his fists.
After the last battle, his position among the Qin generals has been firmly established. From this expedition, Xiao Yuan transferred him, and it is not difficult to see that he attaches great importance to the old Yangzhou Army, especially Wei Qing.
Seeing him accepting the order, Tian Shou said again: "I'll go with General Wei."
"That's very good." Wei Qing couldn't ask for it.
He was not very clear about Tian Shu's talents, but he knew that he was a kind of person who was called a counselor by the king. Following him would only bring benefits and never any harm.
For this reason, Wei Qing's attitude towards Professor Tian was also more respectful during the march.
The two men rode war horses, led an army of 20,000 people, and escorted part of the baggage. The team formed a long queue.
"Sir, even though we have 20,000 troops, if we attack Jinling by force, I still dare to attack. I just don't know how powerful Jinling's army is," Wei Qing said.
"No, no, we can't attack by force." Tian Shou waved his hand.
"What do you think, sir?" Wei Qing asked humbly.
Professor Tian thought for a while and said: "Let's lure the snake out of the hole first. We might as well guess the psychology of the other general. Jinling guard general, named Shi Zhen, has always been very happy about success. Seeing that we only have 20,000 troops, and the main force is far away. , not only will he not be afraid, he may even want to make a contribution!"
He first analyzed the enemy general's weaknesses to Wei Qing, and then said:
"If Jinling is an important defense base for the Liang army, then Zuocheng and Baima are the best bases to attack Jinling."
Jinling is a county, and these two places are the county seats. One is at the lower left of Jinling and the other is at the lower right.
If these two places are lost, there will be two diagonal forces on Jinling. Looking down on the county and city, the situation will be dangerous.
After Wei Qing heard this, he immediately said, "I would like to hear the details."
Professor Tian said: "Zuocheng or Baima, let's choose one first."
"The general used our main force to feign a frontal attack on Zuocheng, pretending to occupy this place and pose a threat to Jinling, and induce Shi Zhen's force to intercept."
"When Shi Zhen saw this, he would not let our troops succeed, and then started a confrontation with the general."
"At the same time, sneak attack on White Horse."
On the surface, the target is directed at one place to lure the opponent's main force, but in reality, it attacks another place.
This is a common tactic on the battlefield.
When Wei Qing heard this, he was slightly worried and said: "Sir, is this possible?"
"Of course not." Unexpectedly, Professor Tian replied directly.
"Ah? This" Wei Qing was a little confused. He had said one thing before, but in the end, he directly denied his own tactics. What the hell!
Professor Tian looked at him with a smile and said: "Although Shi Zhen is very happy with his achievements, he is not a loser. He also knows the importance of Zuocheng and Baima. Therefore, the sneak attack will most likely not be successful."
"And what we want is to fail and make Shi Zhen think that our plan has failed and suffer a huge setback!"
"At that time, after the White Horse sneak attack failed, our army was attacked head-on and retreated hastily. What will Shi Zhen think? He will definitely think that he really anticipated the enemy first, so he didn't take advantage of the situation to pursue us?"
"This is the key point I want to talk about next."
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