Chapter 253: The New Zhenbei General
If it is a smaller-scale army, then the situation is better, once it involves hundreds of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of troops, the army's supply consumption is quite amazing, there are hundreds of thousands of mouths waiting to eat every day, and if there is a problem in that link in logistics, it may be fatal.
Although the Wei army had tuntian in the Huainan region, and the garrison in Huainan could basically achieve self-sufficiency in grain and grass, the supply of grain and grass for Sima Yi's 100,000 army, which was now about 80,000, depended entirely on the Luoyang court, and the transportation of grain and grass for more than 80,000 horses was an extremely complicated matter in itself.
What's more, the army's supplies are not only grain and grass, ordnance camp tents, clothes, carriages and horses, etc., all of these materials are indispensable, and all of them have to be transferred from Luoyang.
After the Wu army withdrew from Anfeng, the war between the two sides turned into a stalemate, and the Wu army retreated to Jiashi, relying on the danger to wait for work, and prepared to fight with the Wei army.
Sima Yi couldn't help but be a little surprised, after all, he had fought with Eastern Wu several times, and he knew the Wu people's combat style very well.
This is not quite in line with Sun Quan's combat style.
In Sima Yi's impression, Sun Quan is a serious and cautious person, he never pins his attack on adventure, he fights if he wins, and retreats decisively if he can't win, after all, the idea of Dongwu can't withstand too much tossing, once the loss is too great, Sun Quan can't afford it.
This time the battle of Anfeng, the Eastern Wu side still benefited, only in the battle of Anfengdu, the Eastern Wu killed and injured more than 20,000 Wei troops, such a brilliant result, even surpassed the battle of Shiting, only inferior to the battle of Chibi, no wonder Sun Quan was a little carried away.
However, in the next attack on Anfeng, the Wu army suffered large losses and did not win, and it seemed that it had returned to the strange circle of the first battle that was easy to win and weak to fight again, especially when he was forced to retreat from Anfeng City, Sun Quan had the idea of retreating again.
It was Zhuge Ke who resisted the retreat, and the revenge for killing his father had not been avenged, so how could Zhuge Ke be willing to withdraw easily?
So he wrote to Sun Quan, wrote tens of thousands of words, quoted scriptures, and spoke sincerely, the core meaning is to persuade Sun Quan not to give up easily, the ancient people who became great things, the one who did not experience a setback, the king of Qi Han Xin, endured humiliation and burden, they all succeeded in the end, so now the Wu army has suffered a little setback, and it is not even a defeat, so it is easy to retreat, and give up the good situation in vain, which is a pity.
Zhuge Ke advised Sun Quan to regroup and fight the Wei army to the end, and not to give up easily.
At present, the main force of the Wu army has retreated to the line from Jiashi to Tianzhu Mountain, which is the lofty mountain of Dabie Mountain, the terrain is dangerous, easy to defend and difficult to attack.
Some people may say that Wu Jun is good at water warfare, but not good at mountain warfare, and it is useless to worship mountains and mountains!
This time, Zhuge Ke wanted to say loudly: No!
Wu Jun is not good at mountain warfare, that is in the past, and now Zhuge Ke has a Danyang elite soldier in his hands, these Danyang soldiers, since childhood, have lived in the mountains and mountains, and they are best at mountain warfare.
If the Danyang soldiers did not show their due strength in the Anfeng siege battle, then in Jiashi, the Danyang soldiers will tell the world who is the real mountain pride.
With such an elite army in the mountains, it is a big joke that the Wu army is still afraid of mountain battles.
Sun Quan hesitated, and finally adopted Zhuge Ke's suggestion, although Sun Quan also knew that Zhuge Ke was eager to avenge his father, but if the Wu army could defeat the Wei army in Jiashi, he could completely change the situation in the entire Huainan, which was also Sun Quan's wish for many years.
So Sun Quan was promoted to Zhuge Ke as the general of Zhenbei, supervising all Wu armies and commanding the battle of Jiashi.
In the past, the Wu army fought and liked to divide and attack, it seems that the number of soldiers and horses sent out is not enough to show the advantage of the Wu army's large number of generals, this time to attack the Wei State, Sun Quan is the fourth way of the army, except for Zhu Ran's attack on Xiangfan, the other three roads are concentrated in Huainan.
The three commanders of the three-way army, which is easy to form a situation in which all walks of life are fighting separately and not subordinate to each other, and now the army is retreating to the line from Jiashi to Tianzhu Mountain, if this state of division of troops is continued, it is not conducive to unified command and unified operation.
So Sun Quan handed over all the command of the three roads to Zhuge Ke, since Zhuge Ke wants to fight, and there is a mature plan, then Sun Quan will let him do it, he wants to see if Zhuge Ke can bring him an unexpected surprise.
From the depths of Sun Quan's heart, he is still eager to expand the territory and enter the Central Plains, even if he can't get the Central Plains, at least the land of Huainan is what he has dreamed of for many years, Sun Quan hopes that in his lifetime, he can see Sun Wu's banner and plant it all over the land of Huainan.
Maybe even Sun Quan can't remember how many times he attacked Huainan, repeatedly defeated, repeatedly defeated, Sun Quan's dedication to this land is extraordinary, and he persevered in attacking again and again, even if he has not gained an inch of land and has not built an inch, he cannot wear out Sun Quan's enterprising spirit.
Most of the generals of Eastern Wu are more than enough to defend and not enterprising enough, these generals from wealthy families are not keen on the Northern Expedition, in their opinion, Wu can hold this acre of three points of land in Jiangdong, it is already very good, Sun Quan has repeatedly made the Northern Expedition, wasting national strength, and has been boycotted by the Jiangdong Shi family.
Every time Sun Quan wanted to raise troops to go to war, there were always some ministers who came to offend Yan Zhizhi, and whenever the war was difficult, many generals began to blow the wind again, clamoring to withdraw their troops.
Sun Quan didn't say anything, but in his heart he was extremely disgusted, when the emperor was always hindered, this emperor was naturally not very happy.
At this time, someone can stand up and solve problems for him, and Sun Quan naturally has a good impression of him.
Over the years, Sun Quan's appreciation of Zhuge Ke is far better than that of other young generals, Zhuge Ke himself is also quite competitive, and during the period of serving as Danyang Taishou, Zhuge Ke's performance can be called perfect.
You must know that Danyang Taishou is the most difficult errand, Danyang is widely spread Shanyue people, the people are fierce, do not obey the king, the previous Danyang Taishou can only be based on Fu, try to calm the riots of Shanyue people.
During this period, Zhuge Ke descended more than 100,000 people from the mountains and completely solved the internal troubles of Dongwu.