Chapter 931: The Old Schemes and the New Establishment
As an extension of the eyes and ears of King Yan, now the Tian'er under the leadership of Guo Jia and Liu Yun has penetrated into the Han Prefectures, especially in the territory of the three southern heroes, the peddlers, pawns, merchants, and officials have become a cover for their identities, and after more than ten years of development, they are becoming more and more mature in intelligence work. Correspondingly, the rest of the princes also spared no effort to inquire about the news of Yandi, especially in a prosperous metropolis like Luoyang, Beiping, which is even more mixed.
Zhang He led the army to the Hanzhong battlefield to support Zhang Hu's battle, from a military point of view, his march should be an extremely secret thing, try his best to avoid the enemy's spies to probe in order to receive his unexpected effect, just as Yan Gang and Gao Ran marched to Sili to block the news along the way, but it was not until the White Horse Battalion Tiger Guards went around to the side of the Han and Zhang coalition forces that they woke up like a dream, but it was too late! As the general of the Yan Army, it is impossible for Zhang He not to know the important ones, so there is only one reason for today's grand welcome party, the Tiger Guards are deliberately bluffing!
Cao Cao's attack on Hanzhong in addition to avoiding the real and the important strategic position here, there is also no lack of want to mobilize the main force of Liu Yi's army to achieve the purpose of relieving the pressure of the Cao army in Yanzhou, Zhang Hehu's guard army rushed to Hanzhong reinforcements is the result of Guo Jia, Jia Xu, Xi Zhicai's three people discussed and carefully calculated, Zhang Hu's troops in his hands are not as good as the other party, but with his ability to add the strength of the city in Hanzhong, when it can drag Cao Cao's army to the greatest extent, the tiger guard army quickly went to make the troops in his hands more sufficient, At the same time, it can also ensure that the Yan army is in absolute superiority on the battlefield of Yanzhou. Both sides had their own thoughts on this, but one thing was certain, the Cao army side would definitely keep a great deal of attention to the movements of the Yan army, and it was almost impossible to completely keep the other party in the dark for such a long distance.
From Youzhou to Luoyang, Zhang He led the Tiger Guards to run all the way to ensure their combat effectiveness, and it only took nearly a month, which was enough to shock everyone! At this time, the news of their appearance in the Eastern Capital will definitely have a certain impact on the Cao army, this Yan army is like a sword hanging in the air, when he has not yet fallen, it can bring the greatest pressure to the other party, so that it is on high alert at any time.
Of course, this method should be adjusted according to the situation of the battle in Hanzhong, and now it is the time when it can play the greatest effect, and Cao Cao fought continuously, Zhang Hu never stopped communicating with Beiping, combined with the actual situation of the battlefield, he is the person who has the most right to speak! Today's scene was created by Cui Yan and others on the orders of the military division, of course, the love of the people of Sili for the Yan soldiers also gave them a great boost, and there was no deception in its spontaneous greeting, and it almost didn't cost Cui Yan any energy, what he had to do was just to make these spontaneous actions more organized and more conducive to the spread of news, and today's scene was also extremely successful.
After the Han and Zhang coalition forces attacked Si Li, the loss of hundreds of thousands of elites made Yongliang extremely weak for a while, and before the Beiping assembly set a two-year strategy, King Yan spent a lot of effort to take down these two places. The Hanzhong raiders were handed over to the newly established Heavenly Wolf for study, and Liu Yi gave them a powerful suggestion, that is, to raid Hanzhong through the Meridian Valley, as long as this strange army succeeded, the effectiveness of the Yangping Pass would be minimized, and it would also be able to reduce the loss caused by the elite soldiers of the Yan Army because of the strong attack on this pass! This tactic of King Yan has been deduced many times by the Heavenly Wolf, and the Heavenly Ear has sent a special person to the Meridian Valley to explore the terrain, with a detailed basis and then fully demonstrated, the result of the Heavenly Wolf's research on this tactic is that the feasibility is more than eighty percent!
This probability has already allowed Liu Yi to take a certain risk to exercise this method, but the subsequent Beiping rally and the changes in the general trend of the world have changed the overall strategy of the Yan army. Although the strategy of going out of the Meridian Valley was not actually implemented, it left a deep impression on everyone present and involved in the discussion at that time, and Zhang Junyi, the commander of the Tiger Guards, was one of them!
Ordered to rush to Hanzhong as reinforcements day and night, the Yan army's strong communication capabilities ensured that the battlefield situation could be transmitted to Zhang He's hands in the fastest time, and he never stopped thinking about the battle situation in Hanzhong between the march, and what kind of attitude his Tiger Guard will join will have a far-reaching impact on the overall battle situation. On that day, Liu Yi transferred Wei Yan, the commander of the Guards, to the Tiger Guards as the deputy commander, and he had the intention of honing this sharp knife on the battlefield, but at that time, Junyi's place of use of force was set in Yanzhou, and now although the location has changed, the complexity of the battle situation and the strength of the enemy army must have made this experience more effective!
Zhang He's heart is very appreciative of Wei Yan's talent, not only because of the importance that King Yan attaches to him, but also because of his own practical perception, with Wen Chang, he has one more object in the army with whom he can discuss strategy and tactics in depth, and before Wei Yan, this role was played by Gao Lan, the current commander of the Wind Army, leading the Tiger Guard Army to Sili to help King Yan deal with the Han and Zhang coalition forces at that time, and the results discussed by the two were no different from several military advisors.
One night camping, just as the people in Tian'er sent the latest battle report from Hanzhong, Cao Hong had just taken Micang Mountain at this time! After some discussion, the two felt that in such a situation, unless Zhang Wenyuan's Yanyun army could arrive in time to make the controllable forces in the hands of the military division sufficient, even if the military division was afraid of the final choice under such a disadvantage, it would only be helpless to retreat to Hanzhong.
No matter how strong the Cao army is and all kinds of tricks, the possibility of taking this city in the short term is extremely low, and from the perspective of time, the Tiger Guards will not have any problems rushing to the Hanzhong battlefield to support! But is that enough? Out of strategic considerations, Cao Jun will definitely attack Hanzhong City, with the other party's current strength Tiger Guards may not be able to get close to the city even if they rush to the battlefield, Zhang He has the pride of being a general, and he usually shows quite obviously, but when he really faces the battle situation, he will become calm, and there is a great contrast between the Jun Yi on the battlefield and ordinary life, and everyone in the Yan Army knows it.
The Tiger Guard Army is the first strong army of the Yan Army recognized by the King of Yan himself, this strong force naturally has a stronger sense of honor from top to bottom, Zhang He often substitutes himself into the perspective of the military division for detailed analysis, in his opinion, the Tiger Guard Army must not enter Hanzhong so plainly, a pair of Cao Jun to take action in order to strategically affect the deployment of the French and reduce the pressure on the military division, it is the deep thinking here that makes Jun Yi remember the strategy of the Yan King that day.
The rice warehouse was lost, Zhang Hu's troops were insufficient, and the Cao army was bound to suppress the Xiongcheng, and with the Yan army defending the city, Ma Chao's Sizhou battalion iron cavalry would definitely stay outside the city of Hanzhong to become a horn. The same as the strategy of sending troops from the two roads back then, there are 10,000 five men and horses on the road in the Meridian Valley, and the Tiger Guard Army has 60,000 soldiers.
Thinking of the analysis of the battle situation here, this tactic is already extremely feasible in Zhang He's heart, Chang'an is in the hands of the Yan army at this time, and it is not a problem to ensure the logistics of the cavalry, but one thing is very important, the generals who are out of the Meridian Valley must have extremely high strategic literacy and extraordinary courage, and there is no doubt that Wei Yan is the best candidate. Zhang He wouldn't know that the reason why Liu Yi was able to come up with this tactic was because of the advice of his young deputy commander, and this tactic that he would not have adopted by mistake has a great possibility of implementation! And it is no coincidence that the candidate in Zhang He's mind is the initiator Wei Wenchang, who really has his own providence in the dark!
If Gao Ran was still in the Tiger Guard Army at this time, Zhang He would not hesitate to decide to lead this strange army by himself, although the soldiers out of the Meridian Valley could surprise the Cao army, but around it were hundreds of thousands of troops of the other side, and the slightest carelessness would be the annihilation of the whole army, and Cao Cao's use of troops was something that no one dared to despise! The art of war has a cloud of "Qi Zheng is compatible, to be right, to win by Qi", any strange soldier is needed to give strong cooperation with the soldiers, Gao Tingxuan has a calm temperament, will be slightly unhindered, and the actual combat experience is extremely rich, is the best candidate to command the army! Wei Yan's talents and abilities are not under the high level, and he has to go over when it comes to potential, otherwise how can he be so valued by King Yan? But there is a huge gap between him and Gao Ran in terms of actual combat experience, and his command of the surprise soldiers can give full play to the characteristics of young people's flexible minds and daring to fight, but at this time, let him fight against a strong enemy like Cao Jun as the commander of the first army, obviously Wei Yan is still a little immature!
Because this plan has great risks, Zhang He naturally wants to ask Wei Yan's ideas, as he expected, after hearing this tactic, Wen Chang's excited look is difficult to hide, I am afraid that even if Jun Yi does not mention it, he will definitely recommend himself to serve as the commander of this strange army, as long as this plan can be successful, it will greatly reverse the tide of the battle in Hanzhong, and he can also use this to repay the kindness of King Yan's knowledge, compared to those dangers can not make Wen Chang have any hesitation!
At this time, the first to calm down was Jun Yi, he didn't know if the military advisor and King Yan would adopt his own suggestions, but before writing a book to Zhang Hu, he first had to refine the idea of this tactic and make all kinds of careful arrangements. The generals of the unified army of their status must not have only one idea like ordinary soldiers or generals, everything must be done in every detail, especially in the current situation of the war situation between the two sides, what King Yan and the military advisor think in their hearts is the overall situation, how can they cause unnecessary energy consumption as subordinates, everything must be thought through in their hearts before they can be reciprocated!
In the next two days, Zhang He, Wei Yan's second general, and a group of staff officers around him, in addition to the march, almost all the time to discuss how to implement this tactic, Jun Yi's rigorous and serious attitude gave Wei Yan a very vivid lesson, as a general commander of thousands of troops and horses on the battlefield, every decision made must be based on careful thinking, just by a moment of whimsy or because of this, their judgment is biased is not taken by the generals!
After everyone's careful and careful argumentation, this soldier's plan to get out of the Meridian Valley is much more perfect than back then, Zhang He passed the book to Hanzhong, the Tiger Guard Army belongs to Zicai at this time, and there is a strict distinction between the upper and lower in the army.
Zhang Hu's reply to the letter in addition to showing his own attitude and reporting the matter to the king of Yan for decision, there is also an important point, that is, this fanfare during the day, and in the marching army of the Tiger Guard during the day, there are more than 10,000 soldiers who are all run by Sizhou County or Minfu, Zhang Hede's book slowed down the march of his main force slightly, but one of the elites did the opposite and accelerated towards Hangu Pass. It seems that in Zhang Hu's heart, in addition to expressing his approval of Jun Yi's idea, he has also made arrangements in advance, once King Yan decides to use this strategy, the Tiger Guard Army will be able to grasp the best opportunity, and even if Liu Yi finally denies this tactic, the rapid advance of the Tiger Guard Army will not be without effect, it can be described as the best of both worlds!
At that time, the exploration of the terrain of the Meridian Valley was in charge of the Tian'er of the Division, and Ugo was the supreme leader here, Cui Yan said that he would meet Zhang He at the Tiger Guard camp tonight, in addition to reporting the military situation of the Cao army in Hanzhong and the preparations for Chang'an, Zhang Hu's intention to arrange him to come was extremely obvious, and now what he had to wait for was the final decision of King Yan.