Chapter 1219: Jia Xu's Response

I have to say that with the blessing of the 'clever tongue' skill, Wang Mang's 'flickering magic skill is like being helped by God, it is simply flickering one by one.

Yuan Shu was actually afraid of Qin Hao in his heart, and he was very afraid, but under Wang Mang's flickering and misleading, he forgot the fear of being dominated by Qin Hao.

Now Yuan Shu is immersed in the fantasy that Wang Mang has compiled for him, and he only wants to take advantage of the absence of the main force of the Qin army to take away the four counties of Sizhou and the five counties of Jingbei from Qin Hao, and then replace Qin Hao as the overlord of the Central Plains, but he ignores the difficulty of Wang Mang's plan.

The premise of Wang Mang's success in this series of plans is to capture Guangcheng Pass, because only by capturing Guangcheng Pass can the Qin army in Jingbei be prevented from entering Sizhou, so that there is hope of completely capturing Sizhou.

Only by completely occupying Sizhou and blocking the connection between Jingbei and Bingzhou can the Yuzhou army be blocked, and only after Jingbei becomes an enclave can it be possible to occupy the five counties of Jingbei.

Guangcheng Pass, as the world's Xiongguan, is easy to defend and difficult to attack, plus it is so close to Nanyang, as long as it receives a little wind and grass, within ten days, Nanyang's reinforcements can arrive at Guangcheng Pass, so it is definitely not an easy task to forcibly take Guangcheng Pass.

Wang Mang naturally knew that Guangcheng Pass was not easy to fight, but in order to make Yuan Shu send troops with peace of mind, he deliberately said that it was difficult to capture Guangcheng Pass.

In addition, although the Yique Pass has not yet been rebuilt, it has been rebuilt for the most part, and it has a fairly certain level of defense, but Wang Mang devalued the Yique Pass that has not yet been rebuilt.

The reason why Wang Mang said this was just that Yuan Shu sent troops to attack Sizhou first, and he didn't care how many people would die in the Yuzhou army, and as long as Yuan Shu sent troops, he could only grit his teeth and go to the end of the underworld.

Yuan Shu lost his mind under Wang Mang's blindness, but there were still many sober people in the Yuzhou army, and Yan Xiang and Lian Po were both opposed to Yuan Shu's attack.

Yan Xiang knew Yuan Shu's temperament, so he persuaded him more tactfully, and Lian Po's military temperament was naturally much stronger.

Lian Po bluntly said that if Yuan Shu sent troops to attack the rear of his compatriots when the alien race went south, he would definitely be spurned by the people of the world.

Hearing this, Yuan Shu's face turned blue and white, if it weren't for Lian Po's expulsion of Li Mi, he would definitely put Lian Po in prison if he hadn't made a great contribution just now.

Wang Mang had already guessed that there would be such a situation, so he took the initiative to stand up and fight against the hundred officials of the Yu army, and several civil servants such as Yan Xiang were speechless, and they were so angry that they drew their swords in the hall.

Yuan Shu saw that the ministers were not opposed, and immediately decided to send troops to Sizhou, he was willing to be ready to order Lian Po to lead the army, but Lian Po would rather harm himself and pretend to be injured than lead the army, so he could only let Zhao Kuangyin lead the army.

Yuan Shu sent Zhao Kuangyin to lead an army of 100,000 troops to be responsible for a surprise attack on Guangcheng Pass, and when Guangcheng Pass was taken, he would personally lead 150,000 troops, gather 250,000 troops, and take the four counties of Sizhou in one fell swoop.

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Luoyang.

"Report ...... The movement of Yuan Shu's troops in Yuzhou was abnormal, and a large number of troops were mobilized to Runan ......"

After Jia Xu took a look at the information from Jinyiwei, he immediately frowned and said, "Yuan Shu doesn't want to take advantage of Sizhou's empty forces to attack Sizhou, right?" This kind of thing that defies the world's condemnation, and he dares to do it? ”

What Yuan Shu didn't know, his plan had not yet been implemented, and Jia Xu had already seen through the transfer of Yuan Jun's troops that he was about to enter Sizhou.

Jia Xu naturally didn't dare to be careless, and immediately summoned Qin Jian, Han Fei, Xun Yu, Tan Daoji and others to discuss how to deal with Yuan Jun.

Jia Xu and Qin Jian are divided into the left and right main positions, and everyone is headed by the two of them, after all, the identities of the two of them are different, and Qin Zhen, as a military general, respects Jia Xu, and all Jia Xu is the real controller of Sizhou.

As soon as the meeting began, Qin Qiong, Wei Chigong and Xiong Kuohai rushed over again, and seeing that the injuries of the three of them had all recovered, Jia Xu also nodded and agreed to them to participate in the next meeting.

"Ladies and gentlemen, Yuan Shu has mobilized a heavy army in Runan with bad intentions,"

Jia Xu, Han Fei said with an unhappy face: "Is this Yuan Shu's head squeezed by the door?" His total strength in Yuzhou is only 300,000, and he can take out a maximum of 250,000 to deal with our army, and although our army only has 50,000 troops in Sizhou, Jingbei still has 120,000 troops. ”

"Yes, our army has a total of 170,000 troops, and not only occupies a favorable geographical position, but also has a strong city to defend, how can he Yuan Shu's 250,000 army be able to defeat it." Xun Yu said.

"Whether Yuan Jun wants to go to war or not, we must be fully prepared."

Speaking of this, Jia Xu looked at Tan Daoji and asked, "General Tan, you are in charge of the strength of the four counties of the governor, so let's report on the strength of Sizhou first." ”

"No."

Tan Daoji stood up and said in a deep voice: "Now among the four counties of Sizhou, Luoyang has 20,000 soldiers, Hedong 5,000, Hanoi 5,000, Hongnong Hangu Pass 10,000, Hujiao Pass 2,000, Yique Pass 10,000, a total of 52,000. ”

"Intelligence shows that Yuan Shu has mobilized no less than 100,000 troops, with such a force, and if Yuan Shu really wants to start a war with our army, he will definitely choose Sizhou, which is relatively empty, and to attack Sizhou, he must first attack Yique Pass and Guangcheng Pass."

At this time, Jia Xu looked at Xun Yu and asked, "Wen Ruo, how is the reconstruction of Yique Pass?" ”

"The project of rebuilding Yique Pass has now been completed eighty percent, although it has not been completely completed, but it does not hinder the defense of the city."

Xun Yu replied in a deep voice, and it was precisely because Yique Pass was about to be rebuilt that Xun Yu would take off this important task and return to Luoyang to report at this time.

"There are 10,000 defenders in Yique Pass, as well as 40,000 Liang army prisoners of war, now that the war is about to begin, it is no longer appropriate to continue to place prisoners of war in Yique Pass, and Guan Sheng is ordered to immediately escort these 40,000 Liang army prisoners of war to Luoyang." Jia Xu said lightly.

After the end of the battle against Dong, the Qin army captured a total of 60,000 Liang prisoners of war, and all of them were used as coolies to build Yique Pass, until the battle with Wang Mang for Hanoi, Ding Yanping selected 20,000 from them to be integrated into the army, and now there are still 40,000 prisoners of war who are still working as coolies.

"Tiger Pass, Yique Pass, Guangcheng Pass, the strength of these three passes is only enough, and it cannot be foolproof in the face of foreign enemies, so it is necessary to increase the number of troops."

After that, Jia Xu discussed with everyone again, and decided to transfer 4,000 troops from Hanoi and Hedong County respectively, a total of 8,000 troops to be stationed in Tiger Pass, so that there would be 10,000 defenders in Tiger Pass.

Hongnong County and the strength of Hangu Pass, all need to be used to guard against the Liang army in the pass, although the Liang army is in the midst of internal fighting, but you must know that the troops on the western front of Sizhou are not much, so the army here must not be mobilized, and only the garrison of Luoyang will continue to be mobilized.