A leader should first consider the overall situation and have a long-term vision. In addition to making immediate plans, he should also make larger strategic plans.
At present, there are not many Jin soldiers and horses in Zhending Mansion, and the Jin people have not yet focused their main attention on him.
It is at this time that we should seize as many strategic advantages as possible. When we have tens of thousands of soldiers and horses in our hands and can threaten Wanyan Zonghan's main force of the Jin Army's West Route Army in Taiyuan at any time, the enemy will You won’t be able to do whatever you want so easily.
By then, I can only guess with my toes that Wanyan Zonghan will definitely redeploy his troops and garrison them in Lingqiu.
Lingqiu and Zhending Mansion are separated by a mountain. With the rapid march of the Jin Army's cavalry, they can kill Zhending Mansion in less than half a month. At that time, the soldiers and horses in Zhending Mansion cannot move around.
Once the army is mobilized to reinforce the Pingding Army in Taiyuan, or enter Daizhou to outflank the main force of the Jin Army's West Route Army, then the Zhending Mansion will be empty. Lingqiu's men and horses can be killed, but they can outflank Gaokan's retreat.
From Wanyan Zonghan's point of view, the soldiers must have been adjusted like this.
But of course Gaokan would not listen to Yan Zonghan's instructions and lead troops to Taiyuan honestly. In fact, he never thought about reinforcing Taiyuan. He always only had Lingqiu and Weizhou in his eyes.
To outflank the Jin army's retreat from Daizhou would be to underestimate Gao Kan's magnanimity.
Even if he entered Daizhou, dealt with the Jin army there, and cut off Wanyan Zonghan's retreat from Qiaotong, he still had Xinzhou, Xianzhou, and Ninghua troops to move forward, which would be a useless effort.
Then attack Lingqiu, then capture Weizhou, and then lead troops to Hunyuan.
Such a massive outflanking really cut off Wanyan Zonghan's escape route. He had no choice but to attack Taiyuan, trying to use Taiyuan City as a defensive defense, or continue to attack south and engage in mobile warfare.
No matter what Wanyan Zonghan chooses at that time, Gaokan has already achieved his goal.
With tens of thousands of soldiers and horses in Zhending Mansion and Yuzhou in his hands, and blocking Wanyan Zonghan from moving north to lead troops back to his hometown in the Kingdom of Jin, Gaokan was the boss in the entire northern part of Hebei.
The best case scenario is that Wanyan Zonghan closes his eyes and grits his teeth, forcing himself to abandon Hedong and attack Bianliang directly.
In that case, Gao Kan could naturally lead his army and follow Wanyan Zonghan's troops.
After Wanyan Zonghan helped him knock down the Song Dynasty piece by piece, he would lead his troops to clean it up slowly, without even cleaning up, and the Jin army would help him deal with the difficult ones.
The remaining ones are either easy to deal with, or they are rebellious officials and traitors who are sentenced to pay gold, so they can be killed at will.
In the current situation, for Gaokan, it was the last time since this battle that he could be the governor of two towns.
If Wanyan Zonghan is strong enough, and even Wanyan Zongwang from Jinjun East Road is strong enough, it is not impossible for him to become the de facto king of the northwest.
As for the Zhao Song official family settling accounts after the fall, he was not worried at all about crossing the river and demolishing the bridge.
As long as Wanyan Zonghan's tens of thousands of troops were not forced to death and trapped in the Song Dynasty, the two emperors of Zhao and Song could only rely on this trip in the entire northwest.
Unless, the two sects want to see the Jin army approaching Bianliang City again.
After calculating everything, Gao Kan had a good sleep. Even on the second day, when the enemy army had begun to attack the city, he was still hiding in bed.
The temperature in the north is getting colder and colder, and it has snowed several times in a row. It takes a lot of courage to get up every day.
Gao Kan was not in a hurry. He didn't get up slowly until it was almost noon and the men outside had come to report more than a dozen times.
After packing up, we went all the way to the top of the city.
When Cao Qi heard that Gao Kan was coming, he hurried over to pay his respects and even brought the generals from the city with him.
Gao Kan glanced at the enemy formation outside the city and could tell at a glance that the enemy formation had a well-organized army of soldiers and horses in front, and its momentum was much stronger than that of the formations on the left, right and rear.
Obviously, the next force in the frontal attack must be Xu Sheng's regular troops from the Zhending Prefecture.
My heart skipped a beat when I happened to hear Cao Qi paying homage: "The general will pay homage to the young master."
With a wave of his hand, Gao Kan raised his hand and pointed to where Xu Sheng was in the middle of the enemy army, and asked: "General Cao, are those soldiers and horses under Xu Sheng?"
When Cao Qi heard this, he glanced over there, then nodded and said, "Young Master Qizhen, that's right."
"Okay, look at the enemy's posture. I'm afraid there's going to be a forceful attack by the whole army later. Xu Sheng and the others are at the forefront. You can tell them to go down and tell the people on the city to be careful. The show will be over in one go. I almost opened the city gate, let Xu Sheng's troops in, and lured the enemy troops from behind to attack."
Gao Kan waved his hand.
Hearing this, the expression on Cao Qi's face changed and he hesitated: "Master, open the city gate and let them in, I'm afraid..."
Gao Kan looked back at him and naturally knew what Cao Qi was worried about, and explained: "Only let them enter the city gate, not the inner city, and arrange for five hundred archers to prepare on the city."
"If Xu Sheng's soldiers and horses make any changes or have evil intentions, just shoot them all."
After hearing this, Cao Qi responded: "Yes, I will make arrangements right now."
Gao Kan looked at the other generals and said, "You should all go back, each to your respective positions and wait for military orders."
"Yes." The generals agreed and all returned to their respective positions.
After waiting for two hours at the top of the city, the enemy troops outside the city finally sounded their horns, and the army began to attack the city gate.
The various troops on the city wall simply made some feint attacks, and waited for the enemy vanguard to rush under the city gate. After resisting several times, they released the city gate and put these troops and horses into the city.
When the enemy's rear troops saw the front troops charging, they actually entered the city. Without any hesitation, they followed closely.
When these soldiers and horses were about to reach the bottom of the city wall, thousands of arrows were fired from the city wall.
After a hail of arrows, the charging soldiers and horses immediately shouted to kill them all. The people behind were still charging, and at this time, a large army suddenly came out from the city.
These soldiers and horses are naturally those led by Xu Sheng.
In a blink of an eye, the two armies reached a point of melee and killed a man of tea. Just as the enemy army was about to retreat, they saw two more soldiers and horses coming out from the left and right, blocking all their retreat routes.
An army of nearly 10,000 people was surrounded and killed at the top of the city.
In the enemy's commander's formation at the rear, Deng Xuan, the commander of the army, saw this scene. He was extremely angry and cursed Xu Sheng for his rebellion on the battlefield.
The Guo brothers beside him had already noticed that something was wrong, and hurriedly came forward to persuade him to withdraw his troops.
But just as they had not yet decided whether to withdraw their troops, they suddenly heard shouts of killing coming from behind them.
As soon as he turned his head, he saw two tiger generals leading a cavalry towards the handsome flag. In front of them was a big monk with a big waist and a big waist, holding a Zen staff in his hand, just like a tiger.
The soldiers and horses in the handsome formation hurriedly led their troops to attack. When they rushed close, they asked the great monk to kill them all with a Zen stick.
The great monk pointed his Zen staff at Deng Xuan and shouted angrily: "Thieves, stop leaving, come and eat the Sajia Zen staff!"
