Chapter 937: Strategic Adjustment

The way of striving for stability on the side with the superior power in the world is to make fewer waves is a dignified way, and there is no place for it, but everything has advantages and disadvantages, and such a strategy can also be used by shrewd opponents. Whether it is setting up a beacon tower or moving the people of Xuzhou to Yangzhou in the past, Liu Bei, Zhuge Liang and others took advantage of Liu Yi's psychology of seeking stability and not wanting to take risks, the general trend of the world is not a simple battlefield contest, and the game and psychological warfare between the parties and other methods are also showing their strengths, for example, the debate was a rare literary event in the late Han Dynasty!

Including the strategy of the troops out of Qingzhou and Yanzhou and the defense of Hanzhong, Liu Yi's strategic methods are all stable and stable, encroaching layer by layer, gradually advancing without giving the opponent any chance to reverse, Liu Bei's soldiers are ready to respond to the Central Plains battle situation at any time, and he and his subordinates naturally have several in-depth studies on Langsheng's strategy, and their judgments are also extremely accurate before Xu Huang's troops leave Xuzhou. As long as he does not move, Liu Yi intends to take Cao Cao, he will not do anything to Xuzhou for a while, it seems that the initiative of when to send troops is controlled by Liu Bei, but obviously after the ambush issued an order, the army was dispatched, Liu Yi's psychology has changed to a certain extent, and Yangzhou must also respond to this.

Yan Jun dared to do this, Liu Langsheng was not afraid of Cao Cao and Liu Bei joining forces, Long Xiangjun's biggest purpose was to force Liu Bei to express his position, but for Yangzhou, this state is really not good, Xu Huang this time by Pang Tong face-to-face teaching the opportunity to pull the banner, this time Xu Nan was entrusted by the imperial court to investigate the relocation of the people, who dares not to cooperate with Gongming can give him a big hat that does not respect the orders of the imperial court, if he is really just a Qin cha and another matter, is there still a small family of private population? Even in Youzhou, this situation can only be said to have been restricted, but it has not been completely eradicated, not to mention the rest of the Han states, not to mention the Qincha, the emperor may not be effective. But Xu Huang is different, he has 60,000 wolf-like soldiers under him, if you are not convinced, you can resist and try, the crime of disrespecting the court is enough to make you beheaded!

The name of righteousness and sufficient force as a backing, the offensive of the Long Xiang army is difficult for the Yangzhou army to resist, once the resistance is to risk the disapproval of the world, Pang Tong has firmly buckled this point when he was designed, the advantage of the Yan army in this area is incomparable, since he has this advantage, he must be used to the extreme! In fact, anyone with a discerning eye can see that Xu Huang is just using a pretense to actually occupy the three counties of Xunan, but what can be seen, this pretense is very sharp.

To put it simply, Pang Tong's move is to "hang the sheep's head and sell dog meat", but the sheep's head is big enough, and the dog meat is fresh enough to not worry about sales. Pang Tong proposed this method on the same day, Liu Yi was appreciative, both of them are called Uncle Liu Huang by the world, but this imperial uncle also has to be high and low, one imperial uncle is loyal and patriotic, and the other is playing small tricks behind his back, and a little polishing of propaganda can make Liu Xuande very uncomfortable at the psychological level, generally speaking, the pain of the enemy is his own happiness, and for Lang Sheng, such things can be more and better.

After the first battle of Yanzhou that year, Cao Cao once commented on Liu Yi, "There is a decision with major matters, and it is also cunning when setting up small plots!" This cunning word comes from Mengde's mouth, but it does not have too many derogatory meanings, and it refers to the fact that Langsheng often has informalities, sometimes even just to disgust you, making you extremely uncomfortable, but in fact, there is not much loss, and he is even more happy, but he does not know that psychological warfare is an extremely effective tactic for Langsheng, and when the war is over, one side is in a good mood and the other side is depressed, and the result is often a world of difference, and the psychological advantage is often not far behind the reality.

In the face of Xu Huang's pressing step by step, Lujiang Liu Bei's response was to be silent and wait for change, and in the face of Liu Yi's righteous and awe-inspiring accusations, he really couldn't put his beak at the beak of not respecting the law of his ancestors, and the slow development of the Yanzhou war after the beginning was also beyond Liu Bei's expectations! The battle of Leping was fought for seven days, the offensive of the Liaodong Army of the Yan Army on the first four days was fierce day by day, and the results achieved were also more than one day, but since the fifth day, the siege soldiers seemed to have used up all their strength, and retreated without any achievements under the desperate counterattack of Lejin, for which Zhao Yun Gaoshun quickly ordered the whole army, which was two days! In the second place of Dongping in Lu State, Gao Ran and Tai Shici's attack on the city can only be said to be piecemeal, and the progress is much slower than that of Dongping.

In addition to the White Horse Battalion, which is still entangled with the enemy, the remaining three battalions have shrunk their forces to maintain a good connection with the strength of the troops, and the entire Yanzhou war situation has developed in the direction of the Cao army for a while, and it seems that in the face of the strong city and the opponent's cavalry army, the guerrilla Yan army with the help of the geographical advantage has a lack of rear strength.

For the battle of Yanzhou, the Yan army has been carefully preparing for two years, and all aspects have been extremely thorough, and the loss of combat power in Qingzhou is the second army of Longxiang Agni, and the remaining three main forces are all fully staffed and have high morale. Or is it that Cao Junjian is the point, and the tactics of cavalry harassment are too exquisite? The answer is obviously no, the battle of Yanzhou has reached this point, Cao Jun's brave resistance and the favorable location and people are certainly one of the important reasons, but the bigger reason is Liu Yi's intention, and the purpose is still in rhythm!

If you can take a deeper look at the current battle situation, you will find that although it is difficult for the Yan army to make a huge breakthrough in both the infantry army and the cavalry army, their mobility is extremely well preserved, in other words, the actions of the three main forces and the iron cavalry battalion can be completely determined by themselves, and the Cao army can only hold on to it at the moment, but it cannot affect it! What is the premise of Liu Bei's troops? It must wait for the Yan army and the Cao army to fight in Yanzhou to a certain extent when they have no time to take care of him, if they cross the river at this time, the three main forces of the Yan army, including the fire army of Liyi, can turn to attack together, and the slightest carelessness of the Yangzhou army will be a catastrophe, how can Liu Bei dare to make a decision so easily?

On the same day, Jia Xu went to Xiapi, and when Pang Tong offered advice, there were two methods, one was that Liu Xin said that let the overall situation of King Yan cooperate to create a melee situation to lead Liu Bei across the river, and then use the Flying Tiger Water Army to cut off its retreat and not return to the north of the river, and use the two armies of Longxiang and Agni to contain it and not fight a decisive battle with it, and after the Yanzhou battle situation is decided, the Yan army should be able to fight hard to defeat Cao Jun and Liu Jun with one blow; The other is to block the Yangtze River waterway with the powerful naval army of the Flying Tiger Army before Liu Bei crosses the river, so that he will not have the opportunity to join the Central Plains battlefield at all, obviously Liu Yi chose the latter at this time!

A good change in mentality will no longer suffer from gains and losses because of blindly seeking stability, but this does not mean that Lang Sheng will give up the way of stability, on the contrary, as the strategy of the Yan army must be adhered to, what changes is the tactics of contingency rather than strategic thinking, if according to Pang Tong's first policy, if the success is indeed a great benefit, not only Liu Bei will be slumped and Cao Jun will also choose to retreat under the defeat, Yuzhou is difficult to defend at all, and there will be no more major wars north of the Yangtze River!

This result is undoubtedly the most ideal for Yan Jun, but there is always a gap between the ideal and the reality, that is, Pang Tong, who proposed this strategy, will not have absolute certainty, otherwise there is no need to set up a second plan with his character! Danger and opportunity coexist, if the Flying Tiger Army cuts off Liu Bei's retreat, not to mention that it is likely to cause a big battle on the river, that is, the Yangzhou Army and the Yanzhou Army join forces to fight against the Yan Army, which will also bring too many variables to the Yanzhou Raiders, Liu Yi can choose to take risks tactically, but this risk must be controlled to a certain extent, and things that are too difficult to control can not be done even if there is a great temptation, Feng Xiao's second plan has become the best choice!

The Flying Tiger Army cruises the Yangtze River to block the waterway, cutting off not only the connection between Yangzhou and Yanzhou, but also the three counties of Hunan will become a complete island, Gongming's Longxiang Army is absolutely capable of pocketing it as a whole in a short period of time, and at that time the Flying Tiger Army will be stronger with reinforcements on land, if the battle situation requires, the Flame Army of Liyi can be used as a threat to Yangzhou and can also be used as a general reserve to join the Yanzhou battlefield, and once again enhance the strength of the Yan Army to give the Cao Army the final blow!

In Liu Yi's view, although such a tactical concept is not perfect, it is undoubtedly the most conducive to the current battle situation, so he must unswervingly implement, Yan Wang's direct legion and the Flying Tiger Army Fangshan Division stayed in Youzhou in order to take care of the overall situation and not without the intention of guarding against foreign races, it is a safe and square method, but that is in the case of Cao Jun's return to help and Yan Jun to start a decisive battle, and now the fierce battle in Hanzhong has taken away a large part of Cao Cao's troops, at this time Liu Yi's rear does not have too many hidden dangers, so it is natural to concentrate the most advantageous forces to make a thunderous blow! In fact, just looking at Lang Sheng's request for the Fangshan branch to suspend the transportation of slaves to the north, it can already be judged that his intention is to strengthen the combat power of the Flying Tiger Naval Army to better blockade the Yangtze River, after all, isn't the little overlord Sun Ce also holding his troops?

King Yan will give him the greatest support if he adopts the strategy of the phoenix, Pang Tong is already aware of this, Xu Huang's attack is extremely fast, and the Liyi Flame Army is also in a state of imminent battle, but these two places, including the southern transportation of the second battalion of the White Tiger Xuanwu, are not the key to the battle, and the biggest point at this time is whether Gan Ning's Flying Tiger Army can seize control of the Yangtze River waterway in the shortest time! For this reason, this time the attack of the navy was Gan Ning personally in command, and the command of Xuzhou was completely given to Pang Tong, and he showed the greatest trust in Feng Xiao's talent, both Liu Yi and Gan Ning, although he still lacked in commanding the army, but Jia Xu and Xu Shu assisted from the side, plus Xu Huang and Liyi Such good generals should be fine, which shows that King Yan attaches great importance to Pang Tong!

The advantage of the Yan army in the Yanzhou War is almost unshakable, and the power shown by the cooperation of the Liaodong Army and the Vermilion Bird Battalion in the attack on Leping has confirmed the feasibility of the Yan army's tactics, in Liu Yi's view, it is only a matter of time to take Leping, and once the city is broken, Liaodong Suzaku moves south and then joins hands with the wind and the Beiping Second Army to break the Dongping Lu State and other places, And in the future siege war, the advantage of the Yan army will become more and more obvious, as for the Cao army in the place where Chen stayed and the tiger and leopard cavalry of Xiahou Yuan and Cao Chun, and the iron cavalry battalion will firmly watch it, the inferiority of the army will inevitably make it difficult for the Cao camp to turn the situation around!

When Zhou Yu analyzed the battle situation in the Central Plains for Sun Ce, he pointed out that the key to Liu Cao's Yanzhou War was whether Liu Yi's iron cavalry battalion could eliminate or effectively limit the powerful mobile force of Cao's tiger and leopard cavalry. Even if it is absolutely acceptable for the Yan army to pay the same loss and take the city, and under this premise, Liu Yi can change his best efforts to annihilate the tiger and leopard cavalry to limit it as much as possible, don't underestimate the difference between just two words, his result is a great increase in possibilities!

With the combat power of the tiger and leopard cavalry, even if the iron cavalry battalion can form an absolute superiority, it will take a lot of effort, the advantage of Yanzhou lies in the Cao army, such a situation is extremely difficult to form, I am afraid that the most is consumption, Liu Yi is more prepared to hurt people, but if it is only limited to make it unable to interfere with the siege of the three main infantry armies, it will be much more comfortable for the iron cavalry battalion, sometimes on the battlefield is like this, retreating to the second is not necessarily a bad thing.

Separated Liu Bei and Cao Cao from each other, and divided the Cao army on the Yanzhou battlefield into two and broke each one, the improved strategic feasibility of the Yan army was higher and safer, and the news of the Hanzhong City Defense War also added a lot of confidence to Liu Yixing's strategy, of course, he would not forget to guard against Liu Bei's desperate moves, if he really crossed the river together, Pang Tong's first strategy for him could also play a role in being prepared, and no matter how the enemy responded, The initiative of the battle situation is still in the hands of the Yan army!