Chapter 824: Siege and Reinforcements
Sima Yi has always been known for planning and then moving, others play chess to see three moves, but Sima Yi can see at least ten steps away, starting from Yanzhou, the long-distance attack on Huainan, Sima Yi has prepared a number of plans, and now after taking Ping'a lightly and forcibly crossing the Huai River, all the situation is still under Sima Yi's control.
Wang Ling is frantically shrinking his forces, trying to stick to Shouchun, Wang Ling has been running Huainan for many years, and Shouchun is his deliberate franchise, even if it is the current enemy, he will not give up easily.
However, Wang Ling's approach is also reasonable, after all, Shouchun is not an ordinary territory, but the capital of Huainan, a first-class town, giving up Shouchun, it is equivalent to giving up the entire Huainan, such a price, obviously no one is willing to bear.
Wang Ling's move was completely unexpected by Sima Yi, so Sima Yi smiled slightly after hearing that Wang Ling had shrunk his forces to defend Shouchun, Wang Ling's actions could not escape his calculations.
This can't help but make Sima Yi feel a little emotional, the ages of him and Wang Ling are almost one hundred and fifty years old, they have fought for half their lives, but they are still going around in the routine, and there is no novelty at all.
Thinking about the battle of Shangdang not long ago, Sima Yi did not fight so easily and comfortably, although he was the same as now, occupying the absolute advantage in troops, but he ran into walls everywhere, was restrained everywhere, and was very sad.
The reason why there is such a dilemma is entirely because of Cao Liang's unexpected tactics, in Cao Liang's tactics, it seems that there is nothing that cannot be abandoned. But this kind of abandonment, but not really give up, and the state army has less of the burden of defense, but has improved the ability of mobile combat, Cao Liang in the high-speed maneuver, successively annihilated Sima Jun's two lines of men, so that Sima Yi suffered heavy losses.
If Cao Liang is allowed to guard Huainan, then there is a high probability that Shouchun will be abandoned, and his main force will be moved to the land of Jianghuai, Sima Yi will be led by his nose, and if he is not careful, he will be bitten hard.
This style of play undoubtedly makes Sima Yi a headache, Cao Liang's army's mobility is too strong, Sima Yi's army is difficult to catch up with his rhythm, and Sima Yi's best at dividing and attacking together, but it has become the target of each other's breaks, but once Sima Yi shrinks his forces and hugs them together, there is no big problem with defense, but the biggest problem is that you are here to attack, such a bloated formation, slow movement, when will you achieve results?
In the battle of the party, Sima Yi can be said to have suffered enough, he marched for half his life, fought the world, when did he fight such an aggrieved battle, even when Guan Long and Zhuge Liang confronted each other, Sima Yi insisted on not fighting, seemingly passive, but he took the initiative everywhere and dragged Zhuge Liang to death.
But in front of Cao Liang, a younger generation, Sima Yi didn't get the slightest bargain, and the feeling of being led by the nose was really unhappy.
Fortunately, Wang Ling is not Cao Liang, and Huainan is not a merge state, Wang Ling's decent style of play is in the hands of Sima Yi, and Sima Yi can formulate a plan for besieging the city and sending reinforcements without spending any money.
Shouchun's defense is solid, the grain and grass reserves are sufficient, even if Sima Yi is a strong attack, he will definitely not be able to take it in a short time, rather than this, it is better to besiege but not attack, draw out the main army, and first defeat the reinforcements of Wu, which can be regarded as breaking Wang Ling's thoughts, Shouchun is a lonely city, as long as it is surrounded for a long time, it will be self-defeating.
Therefore, Sima Yi quickly made a strategic arrangement, and ordered Sima Shi and Wang Chang to lead 100,000 troops to surround Shouchun, with high bases and deep trenches, only encircling but not fighting, but for the army that tried to flee out of the city, Sima Yi asked Sima Shi to decisively block the attack, and not let a single soldier escape from the encirclement.
At present, Wang Ling's withdrawal of troops to hold on to Shouchun is a foregone conclusion, and Shouchun is now full of soldiers and food, and the city is strong, Wang Ling will definitely not have the idea of breaking through, so after Sima Shi and Wang Chang besieged the city, they only need to set up some simple camps to block the internal and external traffic of Shouchun.
As for the deep trench and high base, that is the next plan, Sima Yi is going to dig a few deep trenches that are several zhang wide and several zhang wide around Shouchun City, such a trench can not jump over even the best war horses, outside the trench, build a high fort fence, once the construction is successful, it will completely cut off Wang Ling's breakthrough vitality, Wang Ling has no chance even if he doesn't want to defend Shouchun.
Sima Yi and Sun Li led another 100,000 troops south to meet the reinforcements of Wu.
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After the implementation of the rotational holiday, Niuzhu's Wu army camp naturally became deserted, and one-third of the Wu army left Niuzhu in a hurry, returned to Wuzhong, and went to spend the New Year with his family.
The rest of the Wu army was also divided into two batches, and one group took turns to rest after ten days. The other batch takes turns after twenty days, and each batch has ten days of leave.
The first batch of soldiers who took turns to rest went home happily, and the rest of the Wu soldiers were like arrows, waiting to see through, and the entire Wu army camp could not be maintained even the simplest drills.
In this regard, Zhuge Ke didn't care at all, usually the army under his command is known for its strict military discipline and good fighting, and at this time, it is the New Year's Festival, even if the military discipline is a little lax, Zhuge Ke will not say anything, because this rotation itself is formulated by him, and now the Wu army, one-third is on vacation, one-third is resting, and only one-third is on combat readiness duty.
After such a distribution, it is very normal for Wu Jun to be a little slack.
Zhuge Ke himself is not ready to go home, although his home is also in Jianye, but since Zhuge Ke led the army, he has hardly spent a New Year at home, not that he is homesick, he doesn't miss his wife and children, but every New Year's Day, he wants to be with his father more.
Zhuge Jin died in Anfengdu, so every year, Zhuge Ke stayed in the land of Huainan, just like staying with his father, after all, An Fengdu has always been in the territory of Wei, Zhuge Ke has never had the opportunity to personally go to the place where his father died to pay tribute, but he believes that his father's heroic soul will be with him and has always protected his safety.
This year's situation is a bit special, Wang Ling surrendered to Wu, that is to say, the land of Huainan is already all Wu State, and it is theoretically feasible for Zhuge Ke to go to Anfengdu, so Zhuge Ke has the intention to go to Anfengdu once. Reading with quick eyes_