Chapter 266: Divide the troops into four routes
"As for General Huang Lao and the other generals, go north with me and join General Huang Quan of Zhenbei!"
Before Yang Yun's words fell, Ma Liang guessed his strategy. His face couldn't help but change, and he hurriedly stood up and said, "Your Majesty, are you going to join up with General Huang Quan, attack Linfu and Dangyang, and threaten Jiangling from the north?"
Jiangling is the seat of the southern county, and it is also an important place in Jingzhou, which is easy to defend and difficult to attack, and the Wei army in the north is stationed in Xiangyang, and it may go south at any time, once Your Majesty crosses the river and goes north, it is very likely to be attacked by the Wei and Wu armies, and once this situation occurs, the consequences are unimaginable!"
"Your Majesty is a golden body, and he is responsible for the revival of the Han family, how can he risk his life?"
At this time, the civil and military ministers in the camp tent understood Yang Yun's thoughts. At this time, Yang Yun was ready to divide his troops into four routes, Ma Liang, Fu Tong and Sha Moke were counted as one way, and went south to Wuling to attack the flank of the Wu army.
Zhang Nan led his troops to besiege Yidao, and it was another way.
and Chen Zhi led 20,000 elite soldiers to camp on the flat ground to contain the main force of Lu Xun's army. The last way is the main elite led by Yang Yun, Huang Zhong and Huang Quan.
Among these four soldiers, it is obvious that Yang Yun is ready to put his hope in Jiangbei. However, after crossing the river, the army was easily attacked by the Wei army and the Wu army, and if you were not careful, the whole army would be annihilated, and there would be no way to retreat when the time came.
"Ji Chang rest assured! I have my own calculations! I will definitely not storm Jiangling, as long as I can break through Dangyang, I will personally lead the army to turn to the south and besiege Lu Xun's camp from all sides!"
Yang Yun knew that the other party was loyal, so he didn't care about the other party's tone, smiled faintly, and continued: "Our army has many generals, so naturally we must give full play to the advantage of sending more troops and more generals! Only by leaving this seven-hundred-mile mountain road can we unfold our troops, attack more and less, and overlay the outnumbered. When the time comes, we will be able to break through Lu Xun's camp!"
In the original timeline, Liu Bei did not choose to attack Linfu and Dangyang from the north, because he was worried that the Wei army would go south, after all, in order to deal with the Eastern Expedition of Shu Han, Sun Quan surrendered to Cao Pi not long ago.
Today's state of Wu is, nominally, already a vassal state of Wei. That's why Liu Bei put the 20,000 elites of Huang Quan's department in Jiangbei to prevent the Wei army from taking advantage of the fire to rob.
However, in the eyes of Yang Yun, who has opened the perspective of Tianyan, Cao Pi has not been on the throne for a long time, and domestic affairs have not yet been settled, and there is no intention of sending troops at all.
Especially in Cao Pi's eyes, the greatest threat to Wei was Wu. Shu Han lived in Yizhou, and was not taken into his eyes at all, and in the seven years that he was the emperor, he raised troops to attack Wu three times, but he resigned himself to Shu Han.
Of course, in this world, what Yang Yun knows may not be accurate, but at this time, Yang Yun has no other way, if he continues to stalemate with Lu Xun's army on this seven-hundred-mile mountain road, the probability of Shu Han's defeat is extremely high.
And his decision to lead troops north was not entirely uncertain. As long as you can break through Dangyang, you can have a foothold between Jiangling and Yiling, and when the time comes, a part of the troops will be stationed in Dangyang, even if the Wu army in Jiangling and the Wei army in Xiangyang really go south, they can resist with the city wall. Give Yang Yun enough time to react.
Yang Yun slightly explained his strategy to everyone, Ma Liang hesitated, but when he heard that Yang Yun was not ready to fight Jiangling, he retreated.
"If you want me to say, Your Majesty's method is good, divide the troops to besiege the Wu army in four directions, Lu Xun's little boy is not ready to die?" Huang Zhong laughed, very supportive of Yang Yun's plan.
Ma Liang showed a wry smile on his face, he was afraid that he would divide his troops into four ways, but he would be broken by the Wu army.
Yang Yun noticed his expression, and understood Ma Liang's worries in his heart, this method of dividing troops to attack in four directions seemed to be similar to the strategy of the Battle of Salhu more than a thousand years later.
But the land south of the Yangtze River is not the Salhu of the Northeast. If Lu Xun dares to take the initiative to attack, it will be equivalent to opening the door to block the Shu Han army, and then more than 200,000 horses will be able to advance by land and water and attack Jiangling along the river. Go down the river and have the upper hand.
In addition to Ma Liang in the camp tent, Huang Zhong, Chen Zhi, Liao Hua and other generals did not have any opinions on Yang Yun's plan, so they ordered to immediately start turning back to the camp and mobilizing the troops and horses of the headquarters.
Rumble!
The Shuhan camp, which was originally blocked in the narrow mountain road and could not go east, suddenly became extremely lively, a large number of camps were demolished, and tens of thousands of elites withdrew from the mountains and forests and came to the original camp tent on flat land.
Wu Ban and Chen Shi also began to rectify the water village, and warships were frequent. Let the Lu Xun army downstream be a little passive.
The camp of Soochow more than ten miles to the east.
In the main tent, an elegant young man in a white robe bowed his head slightly, looking at the map spread out on the table, his eyes were like water, his expression was flat and calm.
"The Grand Duke!"
At this time, two generals in armor strode over, these two were Zhu Ran and Pan Zhang, the generals of Eastern Wu. The young man who was called the Metropolitan Governor by the two was naturally Lu Xun, the commander of Eastern Wu.
"Two generals, what's wrong with the Shu Han camp?"
After Lu Xun received the report from the sentry, he immediately asked Zhu Ran and Pan Zhang to go out to investigate the situation in person and collect all the movements of Liu Bei's army.
Now it is the height of summer, the heat is unbearable, the Shu army is tired, he is preparing to call all the generals for a counteroffensive, but he did not expect that before the military order was announced, the Shu army had a change. A hint of uneasiness appeared in his heart.
"Governor of the Great Metropolis, Liu Bei's troops are withdrawing from the mountains and forests and setting up a village on flat land!" Zhu Ran arched his hand and said in a deep voice.
"What?
Lu Xun got up, strode to the front of the tent, and looked to the west, he was also a military general of the innate realm, both civil and military, deaf and clear-sighted, and listened carefully, and suddenly heard some noise from far away.
Zhu Ran and Pan Zhang glanced at each other, not knowing why Lu Xun, who had always been calm and steady, was so out of shape.
"Could it be that Zhuge Kongming has arrived?"
Lu Xun frowned slightly, and muttered in his mouth. Now that Liu Bei has moved the camp out of the mountains and forests, his plan of fire attack cannot be implemented for the time being.
If he can gather the generals a few days in advance, he may be able to break the Shu army in one fell swoop before Liu Bei moves to the camp!
However, such thoughts disappeared after just a flash in his heart, Lu Xun is a mature commander, and he will not be too annoyed by this kind of thing. At present, although Liu Bei put the camp on flat ground, it still did not change the situation between the two sides.
As long as he continues to hold out, sooner or later the morale of the Shu army will drop greatly because of the scorching heat. At that time, the Shu army will either retreat, or it can only wait for the morale to collapse and be completely defeated by the counterattack of the Wu army.
"I understand, Liu Bei moved the camp out of the mountains and forests because he was afraid of our fire attack!"
At this time, Zhu Ran and Pan Zhang reacted! The two of them were also generals of Eastern Wu, and they were very sensitive to the tactics of attacking fire and flooding.
In particular, Zhou Yu, the first governor of Eastern Wu, defeated Cao's army at Chibi with a fire attack. Until now, the generals of Soochow still remember it vividly.