After the "lesson of Zhiyan Chong", the Jin army gave up the previous deployment that had blossomed in all directions and returned to the strategy of "concentrating forces and breaking through each one". The guiding spirit of this strategic plan is: While suppressing the East China Sea and not advancing westward, it will first disintegrate the armed forces of the Han army in the interior, and then use the manpower and financial resources in the interior to attack the East China Sea. Under the guidance of this strategic spirit, after the Jin army captured Hebei and cut off the connection between the Hedong Army and the East China Sea, they concentrated their forces to besiege Taiyuan.

The second battle of Taiyuan of the Chinese children began.

Like the last Battle of Taiyuan, the defenders were facing a certain amount of panic, but unlike the last Battle of Taiyuan, the defenders had a leadership collective that knew more about war.

Although Taiyuan had only experienced a breached a few years earlier, after that breach, both the Jin soldiers and the Han army that took over later had added to the city, especially Cao Guangbi's additions in the past few months, which had basically restored the famous city in Hedong to its old appearance.

Even so, Cao Guangbi did not intend to use the city wall of Taiyuan to directly face the attack of the Jin army. The general who is good at guarding will not passively shrink in the ** arrow and throw stones on the city wall. Long before the Jin soldiers invaded Taiyuan, Cao Guangbi set up a three-layer defensive circle in Taiyuan and its surrounding areas.

On the east side of Taiyuan, Wang Yan was stationed in the area of Pingding to neutralize the frontal attack of the Jinbing East Route Army; On the southeast side of Taiyuan, Xu Wen was stationed in Liaozhou, on the one hand, to prevent the Jin Army's Eastern Route Army from advancing from the southeast, and at the same time to protect the connection between Longde Mansion and Taiyuan; On the west and southwest sides of Taiyuan, there are a total of 25 mountain soldiers, large and small, these villages are more than 1,200 people, less than 100 people, most of the soldiers are trained locals, distributed in the area of Luliang Mountain, with Dazhai to block the main road, and Xiaozhai relies on the resources of Dazhai to fight guerrillas on various paths, with this method to make it impossible for the Jin army to easily bypass this not easy to walk mountain area to invade the Fenhe River valley -- this is the basic situation of the periphery of the Taiyuan defense circle.

In the territory of Taiyuan Prefecture, it can be divided into three situations: northern, central and southern.

In the north, from Taiyuan City to Yanmen Pass between the vast ground has long been cleared, in the middle of the stone ridge, Chitang, Sanjiaokou three lines of defense, respectively deployed 10,000, 5,000, 10,000 troops, these three troops are both tenacious and flexible, when the Jin soldiers to the south of the force is not very strong, they will be the Jin soldiers attack the interception in the periphery, to ensure that Taiyuan will not be disturbed because of a small number of troops, when the Jin soldiers with a large army to the south, these three lines of defense can be layer by layer to consume the Jin army's attack edge, After being unable to resist, they dispersed into the mountains and became a force harassing behind the enemy, and once the Jin soldiers retreated, these three forces would reoccupy Shiling, Chitang, and Sanjiao.

In the central region, Cao Guangbi also arranged thousands to 10,000 troops in Hutu Mountain, Mengshan Mountain, Killing Xiongling, Lutai Mountain, etc., and these strongholds were like small pearls, strung together with the big pearl of Taiyuan to form a defensive necklace, limiting the scope of activities of the Jin army to the mountainous areas in the north of Taiyuan Province as much as possible.

Due to the presence of two lines of defense in the north and the center, it is possible that the river valleys in the southern part of Taiyuan Province, such as Qingyuan, Jiaocheng, Taigu, Qixian and other cities, may maintain normal market operations even in the event of war in the northern part of Taiyuan Province. Among them, Yuci in the southwest of Taiyuan City is second only to Taiyuan City in Taiyuan Mansion in terms of materials and troops, here on the one hand, it is to hear from Taiyuan City day and night, and the horns are for assistance, and at the same time it is responsible for providing supplies to Wang Yan of Pingding and Xu Wen of Liaozhou. The materials accumulated in the Fenhe River Valley and Longde Mansion are all transferred in and out of Taiyuan through these southern counties, so that all kinds of military and civilian materials in Taiyuan will not be scarce. At the height of the Battle of Taiyuan, the Jin army also broke into this area, but each time it broke through quickly and was quickly expelled.

The last line of defense is the city wall of Taiyuan City. In the case of having two layers of defense inside and outside the house, Taiyuan City is not an isolated city. Zong Han and Zong Bi were able to mobilize the soldiers and horses that could be used to attack Hedong, and the total number could not exceed 200,000; Not all of these 200,000 people were elite, and they could not all be used to attack Taiyuan, even when the Jin army was most concentrated, the soldiers and horses used to besiege the Taiyuan defense circle did not exceed 150,000; 150,000 people could not enter and attack from one direction or one place, and the strength of the Jin army that was pinned down and blocked by the outlying strongholds was often more than half of the total strength, so even when the Jin army's attack momentum was at its strongest, the number of troops that arrived under the city of Taiyuan did not exceed 80,000. With an army of 80,000 people, it is impossible to surround Taiyuan City.

There is no grain for a hundred miles between Yanmen Pass and Taiyuan City, under the traffic conditions at that time, hundreds of miles of grain and grass transportation has been regarded as a medium and long distance, each time to provide enough food supply for a front-line soldier, it is almost necessary to use a people's husband, Zong Han has to use tens of thousands of people to maintain the supply of 80,000 troops outside Taiyuan City, in addition, because Cao Guangbi laid down the light cavalry to harass the grain road, so Zong Han also needs to use a large army to maintain this grain road. Even so, Zong Han could not ensure that the Jin army under Taiyuan could receive continuous logistical supply, so the Jin army's attack on Taiyuan came and went, and there was no siege of the city that lasted for tens or even hundreds of days like the first defense battle in the second Taiyuan defense battle. The length of the siege is a key factor in the capture of a city, as once the siege is withdrawn, the defenders have the opportunity to replenish the damaged city defenses, rendering the attacker's previous siege useless.

What's more, Cao Guangbi is a person who has no psychological fear of the Jin Army. The four-walled gates of Taiyuan City are often open during the day, even when the Jin soldiers are besieging the city, they are often open and not closed. Even if Zong Han had tens of thousands of troops, he would not be able to launch a fierce attack on the four walls of Taiyuan at the same time. Since there was a fighting team in Taiyuan City that dared to fight with the Jin soldiers in the field, if the Jin army concentrated its forces to attack one of the gates, Cao Guangbi could send troops out of the city from the other city gates to attack the flank of the Jin army in a roundabout way; At night, they often sent troops out of the city to attack the Jin army's camp outside the city, harassing it day and night so that it could not rest in peace, so that the Jin army later set up camp and did not dare to get too close to Taiyuan City. Since the Jin army camp was located farther away, the defenders in the city would have more time to prepare when the Jin army launched an attack.

After Cao Guangbi's transformation, the Taiyuan City Gate does not have a suspension bridge and uses a straight bridge. In the old system, the city gate mostly used drawbridges, so that when the enemy soldiers attacked, the drawbridge could be pulled up in an attempt to use the trench outside the city wall to stop the enemy army. However, Cao Guangbi's defensive thinking never valued passive defense, he believed that the drawbridge may not be useful for blocking the enemy, but it hindered the attack of the defenders in the city - if the fishing bridge was lowered and then sent troops, the enemy troops outside the city knew that the city was about to send troops when they saw the drawbridge down, and they would inevitably prepare in advance, which would make the actions of the defenders in the city lose the opportunity in vain; If the soldiers have left the city to re-pull the bridge, it is difficult for the soldiers out of the city to retreat, and if they are forced by the enemy, they will often drown in the trenches outside the city.

In the defense of Taiyuan, which lasted for several months, the Jin army once temporarily attacked the south gate of Taiyuan, but after the soldiers of the Jin army entered the gate, they found that there was another protective wall inside the city gate. This protective wall is a high and thick wall built horizontally within ten steps of the city gate, and this protective city wall also has a magpie platform, the wall is on the magpie platform, one zhang and three feet high, the foot is eight feet thick, and the upper wall is three feet, and the two ends cover the door three or two zhang, so as to cover the conflict. The inner gate of the protective wall was opened and closed, and the enemy troops outside the city were unknown. After the Jin army broke into the wall, the cannon stones on the moat rained down, followed by the defenders in the sheep and horse walls on both sides at the same time. Jin Jun thought that it would be a great success to break through the city gate, but who knew that he had fallen into an even more terrible trap! The Jin army outside the city was restricted by the terrain and could not be rescued in time, but the defenders in the city took advantage of the location! After this battle, many Jin soldiers will have a sense of fear when they mention the city gate of Taiyuan, and no longer take the capture of the city gate as a sign of successful siege.

The second Taiyuan defense battle led by Cao Guangbi was completely different from the first Taiyuan defense battle led by Wang Yu, Zhang Xiaochun and others! Because the resources that Cao Guangbi can mobilize are simply incomparable to those of Wang and Zhang. Wang and Zhang used a city to resist one legion of the Jin army, while Cao Guangbi used one legion against the two legions of the Jin army.

The advantage of the Jin army was that it had more overall strength, but compared with the Hedong Army Corps, which was at a disadvantage in strength, the two sides did not reach the point of great disparity; Another advantage of the Jin soldiers is that there are more elite troops, but in the Hedong Army led by Cao Guangbi, there are also some elites who are enough to fight the Jin soldiers, so they will not be as passive as the first Taiyuan defense battle. On the other hand, because the Hedong Army was fighting locally, Cao Guangbi was able to fully mobilize local civilian forces to support the operation, which greatly offset the Jin Army's superiority in troops. In this Taiyuan defense battle, due to the need to allocate troops to maintain the grain route, in the specific battlefield, Zong Han can not invest much more troops than Cao Guangbi, and in some battlefields Cao Guangbi can even gather more powerful troops than the Jin army.

It was under these circumstances that the defenders did not fall behind at all in the second Taiyuan Defense War, the passage of news in and out of Taiyuan City and the transfer of materials was never completely cut off, the Fenhe River Valley did not produce much turmoil under the shield of Taiyuan, and the civil order even became more orderly under the pressure of foreign enemy invasion.

"It's wonderful!" In Tanggu, Yang Kaiyuan looked at the battle reports on the defense of Taiyuan and sighed heartily: "The second brother deserves to be the second brother!" The defense of Liaokou cannot be compared at all! Yang Kaiyuan felt that although the terrain of Liaokou and Tanggu was very different from Taiyuan, his performance was a little negative compared to Cao Guangbi in the defense of these two coastal riverside cities.

"It's an art!" Yang Yingqi, who received the news later, completely relieved his heart: "Surrounded by mountains and rivers in Hedong, there is a relatively complete national defense line, according to the arrangement of the second brother, as long as there is no chaos in the rear, Taiyuan will be fine even if it is guarded for a hundred years!" ”

Yinshuke, who was known as "both offensive and defensive" in the Zhending offensive and defensive battles, led the troops to break into the vicinity of Yuci in this battle, and personally tasted the big dish cooked by Cao Guangbi, and then he no longer allowed the people around him to compliment him for "both offensive and defensive", because he felt that the defensive battle he relied on his talent was simply amateur compared to this Taiyuan defensive battle.

In this case, the only thing to worry about for the Hedong Army was the threat from the south and west, but after Li Yanxian, Liu Qi and Chong Yansong respectively received good news, Cao Guangbi no longer had any worries.

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