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Why didn't the Chu army choose to send troops from Ganzhou, which had internal responses, but to send troops from Yuezhou to attack Ezhou?

The main reason is because Ma Yun's strategic policy is to lure the main force of Li's ** team, fight a decisive battle with them, completely defeat them, and decide the outcome of a battle, so as not to fortify everywhere, and then greatly delay the progress of the Chu army. ?

The war between Chu and Tang broke out, and the impact on the whole world was quite far-reaching, and if the Chu State won the war, then the entire Jiangnan would soon be unified. Although this Chu State is now a vassal of the Han Dynasty, when it unifies Jiangnan, it is uncertain whether it is willing to be a vassal or not, even if it is still willing to be a vassal of this vassal, it can be a unified Jiangnan, and the threat to the Central Plains will definitely be much stronger than now. The pattern of confrontation between the north and the south will be formed as a result.

The Great Han Dynasty in the Central Plains has not yet expressed its position, and that is because it has its own internal problems, Li Shouzhen's rebellion, and they have never taken it down. When the trend of Chu Guobiao to unify Jiangnan appeared, Guo Wei and others would not continue to compare the amount of food with Li Shouzhen, but it was difficult to say.

Therefore, for the state of Chu, there is only one way to go, and that is to make the entire battle situation clear with lightning speed. To achieve this goal, there is only one way, and that is to attract Li Tang's main force together. Of course, in order to contain the Great Han Dynasty in the Central Plains to a certain extent, Liu Mingyi, the envoy of the Chu State, had already embarked on the road of envoying the Khitan, preparing to persuade the Khitan to go south to the Central Plains and threaten the north of the Han Dynasty.

This place to lure the enemy, Ma Yun is now in Ezhou: Ezhou (now Wuhan) is an important town on the western line of Li Tang, it and Jiangzhou behind it to guard the Yangtze River moat, since ancient times are the place where soldiers must fight, Li Tang for Ezhou to guard is strict, stationed 15,000 men and horses, if Ezhou is lost, the Chu army can easily cross the river to the east and attack the most prosperous Huainan land in Li Tang. This is something that Li Tang can't bear. Therefore, once the Chu army encircled Ezhou, it could encircle and send reinforcements, so that Li Tang's army would continue to come to the rescue and eat them one by one.

According to this strategic hypothesis, Ma Yun personally led 20,000 troops from Changsha to attack Ezhou from the southern front through Yuezhou, and Zhu Yuan, the commander of the Second Army, led Shentu Congjian Division and Cao Bin Division from Anzhou to attack Ezhou on the northern front; Lin Renzhao, the commander of the First Water Army, led the water army out of Yuezhou and attacked Ezhou down the river.

When the army first arrived at the city of Ezhou, Zang Xun was frightened to death, and hurriedly sent someone to fly Zhang Yu to ask for help. However, although the Li Tang government was very vigilant about the state of Chu, a considerable number of people, including Song Qiqiu, Chen Jue and others, believed that even if the state of Chu wanted to send troops, it would have to wait for a while, at least about a year. The basis for their judgment is: first, the state of Chu has been fighting for many years in recent years, and the soldiers are tired and have no fighting spirit; The second is that the fertile land, population, etc. of the Chu State are at a disadvantage compared to Li Tang, and it has been fighting for many years, so the treasury is empty, this war is not only fought by people, but in more cases the competition is the comprehensive strength of the two countries, and the Chu State does not have so much money and grain to fight; Third, the Chu army has always taken the route of elite soldiers, the new service in Lingnan, plus the recapture of Jiaozhou, the territory has increased sharply, and the second and fifth armies of the Chu army have not much spare strength as long as their energy is used to control the place.

These three points of analysis are not without reason. It's a pity that Ma Yun, as a time-traveling person, although he can't remember the specific historical events, he has a good understanding of the general trend of history. The Han Dynasty will not be able to stumble for a few days, and when the Later Zhou is established, it is Guo Wei, Guo Rong or Zhao Kuangyin in the future, this is not an easy person to deal with, if it only occupies the current one-third of an acre of land in the Chu State, it will definitely lose. This is not only known to Ma Yun, but also to his subordinate Zhao Pu.

In September last year, Ma Yun convened important ministers to discuss the matter of the Eastern Crusade, and some people once objected, the reason is that we have fought battles too often, we must pay more attention to treating the people well, and restrain people's hearts. At that time, Zhao Pu strongly opposed this view, and put forward his own views from various aspects such as people's hearts and national strength, and the reasons were also very sufficient, but what really moved Ma Yun was only one sentence: "If the opportunity is lost, after the Central Plains Dynasty recovers, the army will go south, relying on Jingnan and Lingnan, and confronting the Central Plains with a single place, I am afraid it will be difficult to succeed, and once it fails, courtiers like us may still have a way to live, and you, the king, as a king who controls the territory of more than 9o states, you don't know what to do in the future?" ”

Ma Yun woke up from a dream, his territory is too big, even if he surrenders, he will definitely not be welcomed, like the king of Nanping but the territory of Sanzhou, after surrendering, the court will definitely not be too worried, but as a king who controls nearly 1oo states, he surrendered, so what are the benefits, you know, the whole world is only more than 4oo states, and he accounts for a quarter, which... This is a person who wants to surrender, but there is no way to surrender.

So, Ma Yun strengthened his position, he did not mobilize the Second Army and the Fifth Army soldiers and horses that had fought a big battle last year, but instead withdrew 40,000 people from the remaining three armies that had been resting for more than two years, plus the water army in Dongting Lake, surrounded Ezhou.

Originally, it was to encircle the point to send reinforcements, but after encircling for more than half a month, seeing that Li Tang's main force under the leadership of Li Jingsui, the king of Qi, and Chen Jue, the privy envoy, crossed Hongzhou (Nanchang) and crossed the foot of Mubu Mountain, and was about to rush to Ezhou in three or four days. This Ezhou is a water city first, and the traffic is reached, and the news of Zang Xun's surrender spread all at once. After Li Jingsui found out, he actually stopped the army at Sixing and stopped advancing. The topography of this place in Siheung is special, and the Fushui River is located in the south of Siheung City, which flows east into the Yangtze River. The source of the Fusui River is the Makubu Mountains, and the terrain is steep. Li Jingsui sent the tooth general Tian Heng to garrison Shixing City, and his army was deployed along the Fushui River, which was not wide, but the water was extremely fast and the water potential was very large, if there was no pontoon bridge, it would definitely not work to wade barefoot across the river.

In this way, these 100,000 horses have collected the more than 50 miles of Fushui River. If you attack the city of Shixing, the city is very small, but the city wall is very tall, it is easy to defend and difficult to attack, although there are a lot of people and horses, but the city is small, no matter how many people you have, you can't use it, if you go to attack the Fushui River, this pontoon bridge is not good to build in and there is no big boat. As for the Jiuqu Yangtze River, the Chu army sailors are not familiar with the river course and are seizing the time to measure. It won't help much for a while.

The Chu army suddenly had to stop at Shixing City

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