The Xuan army withdrew, and Xiao Yuan also began to leave the existing 100,000 troops in Yiyang, Puyang, and some important places in the city.

These 100,000 troops are of great use.

While ensuring the safety of the rear and various key roads, it can also be used as a reinforcement to the front line at any time.

There are no problems with this deployment.

At this point, the front line army of the Qin State attacked Liang, plus Zhao Mu's one, with a total of 300,000 troops.

Whether or not to increase troops in the future depends on the extent of the war.

At the same time, Akagi.

After quickly seizing this place, Zhao Muke did not wait, but swept several surrounding counties again with lightning speed.

It's just that when they continued to advance, the Liang Kingdom, which was reacted to, intercepted in the Jinling area with more than 50,000 troops.

At this time, the main force of the Qin army had already met, Shangguan Ruozheng and Zhao Mu together, and before Xiao Yuan arrived, the two had also started a certain discussion.

Shangguan Ruo is a person who is good at strategy.

As the founding of the country, his merits are undoubted, he once carried out the military and political reform of Qindi, during the war, when Xiao Yuan was almost discouraged, he once strongly persuaded Xiao Yuan to overcome the immediate difficulties and must march! He corrected Xiao Yuan's wrong decisions several times, and also offered advice many times, which led to the final victory of the Qin army.

Comprehensive strategy is higher than tactics as the basis, if Shangguan is the well-deserved chief strategist of the Qin Shi Group, as long as he goes out with Xiao Yuan, he will participate in the army for many times, or the military advisor will sacrifice wine.

Of course, Xiao Yuan's strategists are not the only one.

For example, Chen Yu, Lu Fan, Jia Fang, Tian Zhu, etc., there are seven or eight in total.

Most of these people were the talents of Shuzhong who came to defect after the pacification of Sichuan and Shu, and they had a long reputation in the local area.

Among them, they are either excellent in tactical planning, or good at calculation, or good at clever strategies, or extremely capable of change.

In this expedition, Tian Zhu was among them.

Tian Zhu is a man of twenty-seven or eighteen years old, thin, with a very well-groomed beard on his chin, and an ordinary appearance, but his eyes always reveal a touch of shrewdness, and he is good at perceiving people's hearts, flexible and changeable, and can accurately analyze when to enter and when to retreat.

This time, there are many generals in the account.

Shangguan Ruo took the lead and said: "The king's strategic plan is to use Chicheng as a springboard to continue to attack Liangguo, and now this place, and even the surrounding cities, have been occupied by our army. ”

Hearing this, a Qin general said: "Our army has 300,000 troops, the army is pressed in, the Jinling Liang army, but 50,000 people, will not be able to fight, why do you need to formulate tactics, in the opinion of the last general, it is better to attack." ”

"The brave man is aggressive, it is really a strategy, a strong attack plan, kill a thousand enemies, and lose eight hundred, if you can properly pacify Jinling, wouldn't it be better?" Shangguan Ruodao.

As soon as he finished speaking, Tian Zhi stood up: "I agree with Lord Shangguan's opinion, Jinling is still more than a hundred miles away from here, if the main force of our army is fully pressed, soon, the reinforcements of the Liangguo Kingdom will arrive, and at that time, it will cause the enemy to resist to the death in the city." ”

"Instead of this, it is better to send a small army first to test the reality of Jinling, the other party will not be so nervous when he sees that I do not have many troops, and maybe, he can find some flaws in it."

When Zhao Mu heard this, he thought about it.

Shangguan Ruo's heart moved, and he looked at Tian Yu and said, "You have already thought of a way to deal with it. ”

"It's hard to say right now." Tian Zhu shook his head slightly.

However, his and Shangguan Ru's opinions were adopted by Zhao Mu, who was temporarily the commander-in-chief, and after the latter considered it, he nodded and said:

"Okay, according to the words of the two gentlemen, our army, with 20,000 troops, as the vanguard force, launched a tentative attack on Jinling, led by General Wei Qing."

"The last general commands!" Wei Qing immediately clenched his fists.

After the last battle, he was among the Qin generals, and his status has been confirmed, and from this expedition, Xiao Yuan transferred him over, and it is not difficult to see that he attaches great importance to the old department of the Yangzhou Army, especially this Weiqing.

Seeing that he received the order, Tian Zhi said again: "Let's go with General Wei below." ”

"That's very good." Wei Qing couldn't ask for it.

He didn't know much about Tian Zhu's talent, but he knew that this was a person who was called a strategist by the king, and having him with him would only be beneficial, and there would be no harm.

Because of this, on the march, Wei Qing's attitude towards Tian Zhu was also more respectful.

The two rode war horses, led 20,000 troops, escorted some baggage, and the team formed a long line.

"Sir, although there are 20,000 troops, if I attack Jinling, I still dare to fight, but I don't know how powerful the Jinling Liang army is." Wei Qing said.

"No, no, no, you can't attack." Tian Zhu waved his hand.

"What about in the opinion of the gentleman?" Wei Qing asked humbly.

Tian Zhu thought for a while and said: "Let's lead the snake out of the hole first, we might as well guess the psychology of the other party's generals first, the Jinling guard, named Shi Zhen, has always been very happy, seeing that our side only has 20,000 troops, and the main force is far away from this, not only will he not be afraid, perhaps, he also wants to make a contribution!" ”

He first analyzed the weaknesses of the enemy general to Wei Qing, and then said:

"If Jinling is the defense of the Liang army, then Zuocheng and Baima are the best bases for attacking Jinling."

Jinling is a county, and these two places are county seats, one is in the lower left of Jinling, and the other is in the lower right.

If these two places are lost, there will be a two-line diagonal trend to Jinling, overlooking the county town, and the situation will be critical.

After hearing this, Wei Qing immediately said: "I want to hear about it." ”

Tian Zhu said: "Zuocheng and White Horse, let's take one first." ”

"The general used the main force of our army to feint a frontal attack on Zuocheng, making a false impression of occupying this place and threatening Jinling, and inducing Allah Shi to intercept it."

"Seeing this, Shi Zhen will not let my troops succeed, and then start a confrontation with the general."

"At the same time, sneak attack on the white horse."

The surface target is pointed at one place, luring the opponent's main force, but in fact sparing the other.

This is a common tactic on the battlefield.

When Wei Qing heard this, he was slightly worried and said, "Sir, can this work?" ”

"Of course not." How do you know that Tian Zhi replied directly.

"Huh? Wei Qing was a little stunned, he said one set earlier, but in the end, he directly denied his own tactics, what the hell!

Tian Zhu glanced at him with a smile, and said: "Although Shi Zhen is very happy, he is not a wine bag and rice bag, he also knows the importance of Zuocheng and Baima, so most of the sneak attacks will not be successful." ”

"And what we want is not to succeed, so that Shi Zhen thinks that our strategy has failed and suffered a big setback!"

"At that time, after the failure of the White Horse sneak attack, our army was attacked head-on and retreated in a hurry, what will Shi Zhen think? He must think that he is really expected to be the first enemy, and he still doesn't take advantage of the situation to pursue? ”

"This is the key point to talk about next."

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