Chapter 915: Mental Journey
In the eyes of his subordinates and the people, King Yan will always be so calm and confident, no matter what kind of crisis he can deal with calmly and turn danger into safety. But only Lang Sheng knows in his heart that with the gradual expansion of his power, he is getting closer and closer to the dream in his mind, and the feeling of suffering from gains and losses is also growing! When the Yellow Turban was in turmoil, the princes begged for Dong, he had a blood dragon halberd in his hand, a dark cloud horse under his crotch, thousands of soldiers dared to dominate the world, and tens of thousands of elite soldiers also fought with tens of thousands of Hun cavalry without fear, but today they sit in the land of six states, tens of millions of people, and millions of armor, but the pride of daring to act seems to be gradually fading, Liu Yi told himself countless times that as the most powerful male lord today, he wants to make steady progress in order to win the world, but sometimes an idea will involuntarily appear in his heart, Could it be that at the age of thirty-six, he has already lost the sky-high arrogance of the mountain wolf king when he was young? Pang Tong's proposal made him think deeply!
If it had been placed ten years ago, I am afraid that without waiting for Feng Xiao to conspire, Lang Sheng himself would have thought of this method, now he is not unexpected, but thinking too much, strong strength is of course a huge advantage, but to a certain extent, it will also make him have more constraints, but I don't know if Prime Minister Cao Cheng, who has two out of three worlds in another time and space, will also have the same feeling? Is it this kind of psychology that will make him no longer have the ambition to sweep the world back then!
It is difficult for Liu Yi to judge whether those who have achieved great things in history have such a mental journey, but he knows that such a psychological state will definitely affect his analysis and judgment in the war, whether this is the inevitable passage of the road to domination of the world, he must let himself get back to the mind of treating the heroes of the world as nothing as soon as possible, and at this time, a strategic proposal from the sky wolf that he had ignored that day suddenly flashed in his mind.
As a newly established staff organization, the Heavenly Wolf at this time is at least far less worthy of attention than the Tian'er who is a word difference in the hearts of the three southern ambitions, but in Liu Yi's opinion, this is one of his important means to improve the current Han military system, and it has shown a certain effect in actual combat! That proposal was collectively researched by the group of staff officers who followed him, and at that time Cao Cao had already used Fa Zheng's strategy to attack Hanzhong, and his final response was to launch the Battle of Qingzhou in advance, and the proposal of the Heavenly Wolf was even more whimsical, rushing to Jingzhou!
At that time, Liu Yi was busy thinking about the impact of the battle of Hanzhong on the overall situation, and he had spent too much effort on the Central Plains battle situation in the past two years, and he wanted to defeat his biggest rival Cao Cao Langsheng too much or limit it to the greatest extent, and when a person's thinking was fixed within a certain range, he was likely to lose his usual acumen. Of course, this is not to say that Lang Sheng's response to attack Qingzhou is inappropriate, on the contrary, his strategy has been supported by all the talents under his command, but this move is still limited to the Central Plains war situation, which is in line with its overall strategy, and can only be said to be a clever way to see the moves!
Liu Beibing's military situation in Lujiang, Ganning and Pang all knew it, and after a little discussion, he could see his intentions, how could King Yan not know his situation and not see the changes contained in it? The planning of the two-year strategy on the same day also fully discussed the possibility of Yangzhou sending troops, and the strategic defense of the Xuzhou army under the command of Ganning and Pang Tong allowed the main force of the Yan army to go all out and attack Cao Cao's battle was Liu Yi's response in advance, from the strategic concept at that time, this move can be described as perfect, but now that the situation has changed, is it really the best way to deal with it unchanged? Speaking of which, Lang Sheng thought like this at the beginning, but Pang Tong's suggestion sounded the alarm for him!
What six states, what is a million, it is good to take stability as the general direction, but in the matter of the soldiers, he must be back to the wolf king who dared to do everything in the mountains and forests! The situation on the battlefield is unpredictable, how can there be a strategy that can conquer the world? Maybe sometimes putting yourself in the position of the weak and fighting each other is a good combat mentality, there are many such examples in various sports competitions in later generations, when the World Cup final in 98, I am afraid no one would have thought that the favorite Brazil lost 0-3 at the feet of the host France!
How resourceful Ren Pangtong was, it was difficult to predict how strange and unpredictable his advice not only allowed him to gain greater trust from King Yan, but also played a role in the transformation of Liu Yi's psychology, and once he was slightly awakened, the ideas in his mind immediately became flexible, and the method of attacking Jingzhou that he abandoned at that time seemed to have many strategic and tactical advantages at this time!
The Cao army's army went out of Hanzhong, and Yanzhou concentrated almost all the remaining elites, and the defense of the Jingxiang generation must be very weak, and there is no Yangtze River moat in the north of Jingzhou to rely on, although the attack distance from Jizhou is too far, but don't forget that the Yan army still has a strong elite guarding the Tiger Prison Pass in the place of Si Li, Zhang Yan's Yellow Shirt Battalion! Now it seems that his worries about the tiger prison are a bit too much, the fierce battle of the Yan army and the Cao army in Hanzhong is in full swing, and the Yanzhou Xiahou Yuan Cao Ren and others will face their own huge attack and protect themselves is still insufficient, where does the spare strength come from to worry about this world's first Xiongguan?
There is nothing wrong with prudence, but it is not advisable to be too cautious on the battlefield, which will make the combatants miss a lot of fighters that could have been firmly in their hands, in terms of the current battle situation, there are 10,000 elite yellow shirts in the Tiger Prison Xiongguan to ensure that there is no doubt, it must be known that Zhang Yan's yellow shirt army is one of the eight main infantry armies of the Yan army, but there are 60,000 horses, and the remaining 50,000 soldiers may not be able to play a decisive role in the overall situation, but if it is used to raid Jingzhou, it is obviously an extremely powerful force, It is also the most powerful response to Cao Cao's attack on Han!
The cavalry is interspersed until Zhao Yun and other generals launch a full-scale offensive against Yanzhou, and with the ability of the commanders of the iron cavalry battalion and the efficiency of their implementation strategy, this battle really does not require much thought on the part of King Yan himself, so when the troops are pressed against Yanji, Lang Sheng thinks most about the feasibility of this tactic, of course, he only controls the discussion of it within a very small range, and does not want to have any adverse impact on the preparation of the generals under his command.
If the Yellow Shirt Battalion sent troops from Sili to kill Jingzhou, according to the current military situation showing the distribution of Cao's troops, Zhang Yan should have great hope of taking Nanyang and Yiyang, and Liu Yi will not put the gains and losses of one city and one place in his eyes, what he values is the huge blow that this plan will bring to Cao Cao's internal if it is successful! In addition, Cao Jun has been won here for less than a year, the people's hearts have not yet settled, many people with lofty ideals are still in their hearts Liu Jingsheng, and Liu Yi, the emperor's uncle who is also the master of the Han Dynasty, also has great appeal, whether it is time or people, if Liu Yi makes up his mind to adopt this method, it will be extremely beneficial to the Yan army!
These are the advantages of attacking Jingzhou and the foundation and advantages of the Yan army, relatively speaking, the disadvantages of this battle Lang Sheng should also be considered in detail, when seeking stability, it is as stable as Mount Tai, and when it is surprising, it can come out with strange tricks, this is the realm that Liu Yi should pursue at this time! First of all, Zhang Yan's army dispatch front is quite long, and there are some lonely troops that are deep in the depths, which are easy for the other party to use, but the strength of Cao's army is obviously insufficient, as long as the Yan army controls the combat scope and tries not to provoke Jiangnan Sun Cedang, it can be at ease! As for the supply of strategic materials, although there are also difficulties, the strong logistics ability of the Yan army seems to be greatly guaranteed, in short, in the case of two simultaneous wars with the Cao army in Hanzhong and Yanzhou, as long as Sun Bofu does not join the battlefield, the threat to Zhang Yan's Yellow Shirt Army is not too much!
Will Xiaobawang join the battle like Liu Bei to help Cao Cao fight against the Yan army? Based on the analysis of the current situation, Liu Yi came to the conclusion that this possibility is very small, although in Sun Ce's heart, he is no longer the uncle who saved his father and son from the predicament, but there is no direct handover between his territory and Yan Land, and he does not have Liu Bei's urgent sense of death, not to mention that although the battle situation in Jiaozhou is beneficial to him, the Shi family still has a certain strength after entrenching here for many years, at least Sun Ce and Zhou Yu may not be able to invest many troops in Jingxiang even if they send troops!
And from this point of view, it really makes Zhang Yan lead the Yellow Shirt Army to raid Jingzhou and complement the strategy proposed by Pang Tong, the biggest obstacle to the Flying Tiger Army's blockade of the Yangtze River waterway is the combination of the Yangzhou Army and the Jiangdong Water Army, but in this way, Sun Ce will fall into a difficult choice even if he is an enemy of Liu Yi, fighting with Jingxiang or fighting with the Yangtze River? No matter what choice he makes, Lang Sheng will at least lose the possibility of losing the east corner and reaping the Xisang, and the Jiangdong Navy and Yangzhou will definitely be able to suppress the Flying Tiger Army of Xingba? Maybe there is still such a possibility of a simple water war, but Pang Tong will never sit idly by here, and it is impossible to say that once Lang Sheng makes a plan, there are many subtle additions to a talent like Guo Jiajia and Pang Tong!
After thinking about it again and again, and finally using the way of settling accounts with the merchants, the worst outcome of Zhang Yan's raid on Jingxiang is that the loss of troops will cost money and food, and this possibility is not large, and the benefits that he can get from the Yan army are undoubtedly huge, and it is impossible to say that Liu Yi can use this to cut the Cao army into two sections, so that it can not take care of the beginning and the end, once the battle situation in Yanzhou in Hanzhong and Yanzhou is developing towards the situation imagined by Liu Yi, Cao Mengde dares to fight continuously and attack Hanzhong regardless of the fatigue of the soldiers. After two years of reorganizing the army, the Yan army is obviously more qualified to attack Yizhou with Jingzhou as the basis!
It can be said that when Zhao Yun's army approached Yanzhou, Liu Yi had roughly set the method of attacking Jingzhou and disrupting the rear of Cao's army in his heart, but how to reap the maximum benefits from this, in terms of the timing of the troops and the choice of who to send the troops, they had to go through more careful arrangements, and the battle situation in the east and west and the strategy of Pang Tong would have a certain impact on this, and he couldn't eat hot tofu in a hurry!