Back at home, Bai Lang was still thinking about what he saw and heard in the military camp today.
Although he was a layman in the army, Bai Lang didn't feel that he could just ignore it and just listen to what the generals around him said. If the generals of the Hong Dynasty had excellent records, he would not mind being a yes man and not using his brain. But the fact is exactly the opposite. From history to the present, the troops of the Hong Dynasty have never defeated Yun Yan in a single game. How can Bailang trust this?
Since he didn't dare to trust the judgment of these generals of Hong Dynasty, Bailang had to use his own brain to think about it as much as possible. But he is a pure layman, and even the military books have only read half of the rough concepts on the market.
But Bailang has his own little method.
Don't you believe in the judgment of Hong Chao's military? At the same time, do you lack relevant military strategy knowledge? Then you don't have to look for the direction yourself and just follow Hong Chao's army in the opposite direction to figure it out? If some logical and self-consistent truths are figured out, it means another choice for Yunyan Manzi. If not, then for the time being, we can only follow what Hong Chao Junwu said and take it one step at a time.
Bai Lang sat in the study for an hour. On the table was a topographical map of Changshui Basin used by the military, which was of course a simplified version. But we can also see the changes in relevant important cities and various topography along the Changshui River.
Logically speaking, Bailang corresponded to the map. He also felt that if Yunyan Manzi moved quickly enough, he would be able to gather enough boats to cross the river before Shuangqing City or Shuangqing City. After all, if the big ship is gone, there will still be small boats, which can be used to cross the river. Moreover, Bailang had also seen the so-called naval forces of the Hong Dynasty. They were all converted from ordinary large ships. Such warships were completely useless when encountering Qi practitioners, and there was no hope of being able to blockade them on the river.
In other words, following the deductions of the generals under Liu Jianyu, the final result is to see whether Yunyan Barbarian can gather enough boats to cross the river before Shuangqing City, and then Yongchuan City can avoid the war, and at the same time the final pressure will come. The north bank of Changshui.
But if Yunyan Barbarian fails to gather enough boats to cross the river before Shuangqing City, he will most likely go north to Shuangqing City or even capture Shuangqing City and then head straight for Yongchuan City.
Bailang didn't understand many of these calculations, but judging from the pre-war deductions under Liu Jianyu's command today, 90% of the people didn't think any city on the south bank could withstand the Yunyan barbarians, including themselves. They all felt that either the Yunyan Barbarians would not come and everyone would have a way to survive, or if they came, they would have to fight to the death and eventually turn into scorched earth along with the city.
By analogy, what the generals of Yongchuan City thought so, did the defenders in Shuangqing City or other cities also think so?
Then the question arises. It is impossible for all the defenders to be as resolute and as resigned to death as the black tiger general Zhao Panshan of Pengshan Pass, right?
Even if Barbarian Yunyan is too barbaric to surrender, the judgment of the current situation gives those who do not want to die, or do not want to face Barbarian Yunyan, an alternative. That is to tell the barbarians who are going north along the river to rush to the north bank. Whether they go to Shunning or they are stopped by the cities on the north bank, just don't come here to get involved.
So "ship" became the key.
It is not only the key to the Yunyan barbarians crossing the river, but also the key to the survival of the soldiers and civilians in the cities north of Rongcheng and on the south bank of Changshui.
If you take the initiative to send them, no, if you accidentally miss a dozen or twenty large and medium-sized ships and get them by the Yunyan barbarians on the riverside, is that a disguised relief for yourself? Bailang thought so.
This is not because Bai Lang's mind is too dark, but when he has no fighting spirit and feels that he will definitely die if he attacks, and the entire Hong Dynasty military department seems extremely incompetent, it is difficult not to think, "You can't beat me anyway, why not?" Seek a way out for yourself."
Of course, the above are all things Bailang thought up based on the deductions made by Liu Jianyu's subordinates today. He didn't quite believe it. The category of disbelief is not his series of judgments about the Hong Dynasty, but the judgments made by Liu Jianyu and other Hong Dynasty generals about the Yunyan barbarians. Because since the beginning of the war, everyone in the Hong Dynasty has not guessed even one of Yun Yan's movements. They all seemed reasonable and logical, but every time they were far from the actual situation.
Bailang's little trick is to deduce it in reverse.
Why? Naturally, Liu Jianyu's generals began to deduce the war situation on the south bank of Changshui.
That is to say, Liu Jianyu's men unanimously believed that the Yunyan barbarians would extend the water to the north, and then wait for opportunities to seize ships to cross the river and force Shunning.
What if this deduction is wrong?
What if Yunyan Manzi didn't go through all the trouble on the south bank of Changshui River as everyone inferred and finally had to cross the river to Shunning?
What will happen in that case?
Bailang sat in front of the map and thought. From time to time some wild speculations pop up in my mind.
Perhaps it was Bai Lang, a layman with no military literacy or knowledge at all, who dared to disregard the consensus of so many generals and consider other possibilities.
Following this rebellious thought, Bailang wrote and drew on the map. Then he looked at the map and Yunyan Barbarian's furious attack speed, and an idea gradually emerged in his mind.
"If the purpose of the barbarians is not to cross the river, their purpose of advancing so fiercely to sweep across the south bank of the Changshui River, apart from their ridiculous brainwashing craziness of the God War, must be to raise food!
If we are traveling by land, raising food for more than a hundred miles will not be worth the gain. After two hundred miles, the food raised by eating horses and chewing is not enough to eat on the road, and it will inevitably slow down the traveling speed and our own mobility, so we can only use War feeds war. But this problem can be perfectly solved by the long water. As long as you collect food and supplies, you don't need to escort them at all. You can just throw them on the ship and float them downstream."
Bai Lang was suddenly startled when he thought of this.
"Flowing down the river, isn't this transporting food back to the Tianfeng Plain in the south?!"
Bai Lang was so startled by this idea that he jumped up from his chair. The horror on his face was accompanied by his rapid breathing due to fear, and he looked at the southern end of the line representing the long water on the map. That's where Tianfeng Plain is close to Bodaoling in the west. It's also near where Yunyan's army split up and crossed Tianfeng Plain to fight down. It's estimated that the distance is less than eighty miles.
"So these barbarians don't need to cross the river at all. If they collect food and then fight back to the Tianfeng Plain, they can ignore the strong walls and clear fields of the Tianfeng Plain, and at the same time achieve a two-sided attack on the Tianfeng Plain!
Once the main force of the Hong Dynasty on the Tianfeng Plain is eliminated, it will be equivalent to wiping out nearly 70% of the Hong Dynasty's combat power. At that time, going north to force Shun Ning would be like searching for something.
If this is the case, how can Yunyan Manzi let go of the important town of Yongchuan City? ! "
Bailang didn't care about Hong Chao's victory or defeat at all. What he cared about was whether he and everyone who followed him could have a retreat when the war came, and could see the light of day again after the war subsided instead of turning into scorched earth. Therefore, as soon as the thought "Yunyan barbarians will invade" came up, Bailang made a clear judgment.
Just after Bailang completed a complete deduction sequence, a prompt from the attribute panel suddenly sounded in his mind:
[Trigger ability "Military Strategy"]
(End of chapter)
