Chapter 392: The Meeting of Lin County
Lin County is located at the southern end of Youzhou, located at the turn of Hebei Youyou, more than ten years ago was just a small town covering an area of several miles, with a population of more than 100 households, Liu Yi defeated Gongsun Zan after Youzhou Daxing business, this place is not only the key point of the south to the north but also opposite to the important town of Jizhou Anxian, with the development of these years to expand and prosper, to Xingping three years, the state capital set up a special camp here, there are 100,000 households, a radius of more than ten miles, almost all the businesses around the country have established a branch in this place, it is already a well-known place of the Han Dynasty.
Nowadays, Youzhou and Jizhou are tense, and many horses are also stationed around Lin County, Guan Hai's guard battalion and Zhao Yun's iron cavalry battalion, including Pei Yuanshao's Xuanwu battalion, are all here, and the strategic material resources transported from the rear continue to arrive here every day, and Liu Yi is personally sitting here to control the overall situation, it can be said that the brain of the Youzhou Army in this Hebei dispute is Lin County!
The lobby of the county government has become Liu Yi's command post at this time, and today all the generals gathered here, everyone has an excited battle spirit on their faces, and they have been idle for nearly two years, and this time they can finally show their skills again, and the opponent is still a strong general, who doesn't look forward to it as a general?
"Third general, hasn't the lord arrived yet?" After nearly half a year of training, all battalions are now fully manned, with sufficient supplies and fierce fighting spirit! When Zhang He arrived in Lin County, the rest of the generals had already arrived, and seeing that the lord and several military advisors were not in the lobby, he asked Zhao Yun, who was talking to Hua Xiong and others in front of the hall.
"The eldest brother and the three military advisors asked me to wait here to meet each other, they must have important matters to discuss, so be calm and don't be impatient." In fact, Zhao Yun also has a thirst for war in his heart, but the second brother is not here, he is the head of the generals, and the more the battle, the more calm is the way to be a general.
"Well, Yuan Benchu is indeed not comparable to Gongsun Zhan and Liu Bao, but they can't be rampant in front of our army, last time it was Anxian County taken by General Zhang Yan, and this time he will definitely attack the city and plunder the land for the Lord again!" Zhang Helang said that although he didn't know what his specific task was, he had to fight for this battle, and Zhao Yun's iron cavalry battalion could not be used to attack the city after all.
"What Jun Yi said is that you have already captured Anxian County, so why will it be my Longxiang battalion's turn to take the lead this time." Although Zhang He did not say it explicitly, the meaning of his words was already clear, in the face of military merits, which of Liu Yijun's generals would give way, Xu Huang immediately said.
"Gongming, what are you talking about, did you still have less limelight on your last trip to Yanzhou? The morale of the army is the first, and the first battle must be won, Yuan Shao made it clear that the rats do not come out of the hole, okay, even if the siege of the city, my tiger guard battalion must take the lead. Zhang He's words were also not at all relentless.
"If you want to attack the city, you should take Gao's Liaodong battalion first, as long as the lord orders, there will be no city in Jizhou that my battalion can't attack!" Liu Yi's army is indeed the most in the siege camp of Gao Shun, these years of exchanges have made Jing Fang have long been integrated into the Youzhou army, and it will not be bad to grab the merit, although the Liaodong battalion is a new battalion, but he has always been full of confidence in his ability to train troops.
"In my opinion, there is no need to work for the three generals, and my Beiping battalion can win the first battle." Tai Shi Ci also joined the battle group at this time, he and Gao Shun are the same, this time they are all newly recruited soldiers, but the hard training of this half year is not in vain, and there is also a certain proportion of veterans in their battalion.
At this time, all the generals expressed their opinions, and the generals in the battalion also helped each other, and the scene became very lively for a while, only Zhao Yun and Hua Xiong and others did not participate, and they were also good at grabbing merit in other places, but now the siege that everyone is fighting for is not the director of their iron cavalry battalion; The other person stood silently in the distance with a smile, it was Li Tieniu, the commander of the Vermilion Bird Battalion, anyway, no matter which battalion was responsible for the siege, his sky-bombardment cannon was indispensable, and naturally he didn't bother to argue.
"Three generals, generals, the main army division, please go to the backyard tent." When there was still a fight in the hall, Liu Liu had already come to the hall to convey the lord's military order, and all the generals immediately quieted down when they heard the words, and as Liu Liu walked into the backyard, this was originally a small garden, but now it was transformed into a huge camp tent by the guards and soldiers, which was more than enough to accommodate dozens of people.
In the camp tent is a huge sand table, Liu Yi and Xi Zhicai, Guo Jia, Jia Xu and others are holding wooden sticks and pointing in the middle, Guo Jia also pasted some pieces of paper on the huge map hanging from time to time, that is, the generals did not stop when they entered. For this kind of sand table, Liu Yi's generals have become accustomed to it, and this thing is extremely helpful for them to command the battle, and the detailed production before each battle has become an unwritten practice in the army. Just now, everyone was fighting each other in the lobby, and their voices were not small, but when they arrived here, they were all calm and quiet, and they didn't dare to disturb them.
"It's all here, let's see if the locations of each battalion are mismarked? I see that you are all suffocated, and the noise in the lobby can be heard here, and you have to fight for a specific strategy, and I don't have time to judge which of you has the loudest voice. After a while, Liu Yifang raised his head and said solemnly, this is a military camp, and he naturally will not talk to the generals as usual.
The generals also looked whole when they heard this, bowed their heads and carefully observed the sand table, today's sand table production is particularly surprising, the small wooden figures standing on the plate are the places where the battalions are now assembled, and the generals are also in their hearts compared with the reality, and there is not much mistake. Liu Yi's formation this time was also different from the past, and hundreds of thousands of troops were almost spread out in one word.
"The report on the enemy situation has been distributed to all battalions, the generals must keep it in mind, and after the march, they must supplement it at any time according to the changes in front of them, the report you have read is in exchange for dozens of lives, and it should not be overlooked, if anyone is not familiar with the military situation, immediately go back to defend the city for me!" General Hua! After the generals took a closer look, Liu Yifang began to speak, and this time the first thing he called was Huaxiong.
"The last general!" Hua Xiong's face was overjoyed when he heard this, and he walked to the lord's side with his head held high.
"Where is your Xiliang camp now?" Liu Yi also handed over the wooden staff to Hua Xiong as he spoke, and everyone had learned this kind of sand table deduction method in the Youzhou Martial Arts Academy, and then it was used in actual combat, so Liu Yijun was no stranger to this for officers above the lieutenant colonel.
"The last general's Xiliang camp is now stationed between Chen County and Ju County, twenty miles ahead is the Chong County on the border of Jizhou, where the terrain is flat, conducive to cavalry assault, according to the report of the exploration horse, Chong County has begun to migrate a month ago, and now there are not many people, and there is no Yuan army guard, and the military intelligence report is generally the same, if the war starts, Xiong can rush to Liujiawa in six hours, here extends in all directions, my Xiliang camp can look east Yecheng, west look at Liyang, sit and wait for the general's military order to set the next step." Hua Xiong held a wooden staff in his hand and pointed to the sand table and said sarcastically, he could see that he had worked hard before.
"Last time I fought with Yuan Shao, General Hua's Xiliang Battalion and Wen Zhongheng's cavalry had a fight, I must know very well, now he has nearly 50,000 fine cavalry, in addition to Xiahou Yuan's 30,000 tiger and leopard cavalry will join the battlefield at any time, if Liu asks you to cut off the passage between Liyang and Yecheng, I don't know how much time General Hua will take, and how much can it support?" Liu Yi nodded and said.
At this time, Hua Xiong no longer answered immediately, but fell into thinking, the lord's question is not simple, it is likely to be a fact that will happen on the battlefield in the future, he must make a perfect comparison of the strength of the enemy and me, he knows a lot about the Jizhou cavalry, and the tiger and leopard cavalry also learned in Zhao Yun's mouth, the combat power is still above Jizhou, and the sum of the two is nearly 70,000, he must carefully consider it.
"Lord, there are two official roads between Jizhou and Liyang, and a small road, if our army takes the lead, Xiong and Liu Jiawa can reach it day and night, but the enemy is outnumbered, Xiong can only harass the strategy as the top, and it may not be feasible to completely cut it off, there is no Youzhou here, it is not suitable to fight after the lone army of my Xiliang camp is deep, but if it is required by the military situation, it is Wen Chou and Xiahou Yuan to the same place, and Xiong can entangle them for at least two days with the lives of 20,000 brothers in Xiliang Camp!" After some careful consideration, Hua Xiong said, this is not the place to say big things, on the contrary, everything is related to the overall situation, everything must be estimated at worst, he does not think that he can compete with Wen Chou Xiahou Yuan with the strength of his own battalion, so there is a harassment talk, but once Liu Yi gives a strong military order for the sake of the overall situation, Ziwei will still not hesitate at all, even if he fights the entire Xiliang camp, he will also guarantee his promise!