Chapter 156 Sheng Yong and Fu Youde’s plan
On Guangwu Mountain.
Sheng Yong has been watching it for a long time.
Not far away, there is a hot air balloon hanging high. Overlooking Guangwu Mountain. It was impossible for any of Sheng Yong's military maneuvers to escape the eyes of the other side.
Sheng Yong is also used to this thing.
The Guangwu Mountain battlefield is not just here. Instead it stretches for miles.
Although, because of the characteristics of the Yellow River. Many places on the south bank of the Yellow River are not suitable for landing. It is also difficult to transport supplies on some beaches. Many of them were only able to walk away. As soon as the artillery cart passed by, half of their bodies were trapped.
The Northern Army was still left to explore several paths.
What makes Sheng Yong even more desperate is that. The first pontoon bridge across the Yellow River is about to be built on the opposite side.
At that time, the Northern army could rush directly to the south bank without taking a boat.
By then, the situation in Guangwu Mountain will be unsustainable.
After all, the war has ended here. If we just talk about casualty ratio. There was not much difference between the Southern Army and the Northern Army. It can even be said that the number of casualties of the Southern Army was less than that of the Northern Army. For the Northern Army. The biggest cause of casualties was logistics. Even if the Northern Army tried its best to throw out firepower, it was because of logistical reasons that the firepower could not be accumulated.
All we can do is fight.
In addition, the Southern Army occupies the terrain advantage, and the current situation is normal.
But once the pontoon bridge was repaired. This situation is not easy to handle.
And Sheng Yong also saw that there was not just one pontoon bridge opposite, but several pontoon bridges being built. It's not that Sheng Yong didn't send people to attack or destroy, but regardless of whether it can succeed, the opponent will recover quickly after success.
The sacrifices made seemed of little use.
"Time, time." Sheng Yong had a headache. He wanted to turn the sun and the moon and let the time jump to one or two months in the future, because it was the rainy season. Once the Yellow River rises, I don't know if these pontoon bridges will survive, but the Northern troops camped along the south bank will all rush into the Yellow River and become fish and turtles.
This was also the idea that Sheng Yong originally insisted on.
Persistence is victory. If he survives the rainy season, the Yellow River will punish the Northern Army on his behalf.
Of course, it is more likely that the north saw that nothing could be done and retreated early, ending the war in the first half of this year.
It bought the Nanjing court several months of time.
It's just that it's impossible.
Sheng Yong's biggest problem was not the casualties among his soldiers. The troops in his hands are still relatively sufficient. But all kinds of gunpowder firearms are almost worn out.
After all, various firearms cannot be used all the time, and they will wear out after being used for a long time. It's just that this kind of wear and tear doesn't seem to be big. Generally, artillery is used sparingly and wars are infrequent. It seems normal to use it for more than ten years, or even for many artillery pieces to last hundreds of years.
But the intensity of war is different.
Now, once it's daytime for the Northern Army, all artillery units will fire. Either bombard the opponent's camp to open up an attack direction for the Northern soldiers, or suppress the opponent's infantry so that they dare not attack rashly. etc.
There are even accidental injuries. This is hard to say.
More than a hundred shots were fired every day. It is normal for these artillery to be unable to withstand the situation, and faced with the free artillery of the Northern Army. Could the Confederate army not fight back?
Let’s not talk about other things, let’s just talk about one thing. The other party’s artillery fire was random, but our own side did not fire. How can we maintain morale as time goes by? Or simply impossible to maintain. The soldiers below were afraid.
So even if there is no result, we still have to fire.
Therefore, the Battle of Guangwu Mountain, without both sides realizing it, evolved into a war dominated by artillery. The reason is also very simple. The place where the two sides are fighting is fragmented. Whether it is on the sandbank or the tidal flat by the river, it is not suitable for large armies to fight. Not to mention, they would assemble for battle within the range of the opponent's artillery.
Therefore, artillery became the main choice for both sides.
In addition to artillery, there are also night battles.
Night battles have become routine.
At once
It was because both sides could not withstand the bombardment of artillery fire during the day and did not dare to fight. At night it was difficult to tell the difference between the artillery fire on both sides. Even the firecrackers didn't dare to mess around. They fell into hand-to-hand combat.
I have to admit that no matter when the time comes, hand-to-hand combat and hand-to-hand combat are the final solution.
But at this point, the Southern Army is not inferior to the Northern Army at all. You Yanyun men are powerful, but it was me, the Jianghuai heroes, who defeated this world. When fighting face to face, no one is afraid of the other.
It can only be consumption.
Consume human lives, consume gunpowder, consume everything.
Now, Sheng Yong can no longer consume it.
At this time, a letter arrived in Sheng Yong's hands.
After Sheng Yong saw it, he couldn't come back to his senses for a long time. His hands were shaking a little.
Because Fu Youde has arrived in the area south of Guangwu Mountain.
It is not said where exactly. But this was enough to scare Sheng Yong.
Sheng Yong has his own intelligence personnel. At least he didn't know that Fu Youde's headquarters had been moved here from Shandong. Then, there is a high probability that the other party will not know. It is very clear what Fu Youde wants to do.
And Fu Youde's request to him was also very simple. At the right time, abandon Guangwu Mountain. Retreat westward.
The Eight Passes of Luoyang refer to the eight passes and directions of Luoyang Basin’s external connections.
If Ye Chen wants to attack Luoyang, he must defeat one of these.
What Fu Youde wants is, after Ye Shen's army arrives at the south bank, what will he do when faced with the temptation from the southeast? This is a huge gap with almost no defenders. Ye Chen could march straight in and attack directly to the Henan mansion, and even fight all the way to the Huaihe River.
If Ye Chen goes south, he will face Fu Youde's ambush.
At that time, Sheng Yong will attack from Luoyang's defense line, attack Guangwu Mountain, and cut off Ye Chen in the area south of the Yellow River.
If Sheng Yong abandons the southeast direction and continues to attack Luoyang according to his original plan, he will leave his back to Fu Youde. Fu Youde will attack Guangwu Mountain by himself and cut off Ye Chen's retreat. Shen was able to return to the North Shore.
The reason why Sheng Yong was frightened was partly because of Fu Youde's ability. Anyone who knows about the ability to unknowingly mobilize hundreds of thousands of troops into place is incredible.
Sheng Yong couldn't do it anyway.
On the other hand, Sheng Yong also felt that this battle looked good. But there was a big problem. He felt that Fu Youde looked down on Ye Chen. He had fought with Ye Chen for so many days, and he definitely would not think that Ye Chen was an incompetent person.
Ye Chen might not be able to pull this trick off. And if you drill, you may not be able to win.
Sheng Yong thought about it and thought to himself: "The key to this is Guangwu Mountain. As long as Guangwu Mountain can be successfully returned to his own hands, this battle is not impossible. But Guangwu Mountain is so easy to win. ?"
The mountains in Guangwu Mountain are not high and the land is not large. It doesn't look like a natural pass, but after fighting here for so long, times have changed. There are enough firearms, and any place may be an iron-walled pass.
And do Beijing have firearms?
Needless to say, it is very difficult to take back this place, almost impossible to do.
But Sheng Yong immediately smiled, and he also knew that this was actually the limit of what Fu Youde could do. Maybe Fu Youde didn't think about taking Guangwu Mountain. What he wanted was to cut off the opponent's retreat, rather than take over here. There was still a difference between the two.
However, Sheng Yong's heart moved, and he secretly said: "This is not without a chance."
Then he began to count the gunpowder in his hand, preparing to plant means in Guangwu Mountain. When the time came, he would give the Northern Army a hard blow. The Northern Army probably would not have thought that there was a bomb here. The Guangwu Mountain they had worked so hard to capture was going to be destroyed. The end of their lives.
However, this is not easy to do. First of all, you need to have enough gunpowder, which is not too difficult to do. Although the Confederate army did not have enough supplies, it was not so short. The second is how to prevent the other party from discovering it.
After all, if you want to plant gunpowder,
It is not an easy task, not to mention that after the opponent invades Guangwu Mountain, he will not doubt whether there has been any manipulation. This is also a problem, as well as other confidentiality issues and so on.
All are problems. But in Sheng Yong's view, these problems are all details and are not unsolvable.
