Chapter 872: Staying on the Sidelines
Hanzhong Qingyan two battles, Zhang Hu led the second battalion of Si Governor Chang'an to meet the more than 300,000 troops led by Cao Cao, Xu Huang Juyi fought with Yu Ban, Cao Ren, Le Jin and other Cao battalion generals in Lu County, Fei County, Tai Shici, Gao Lan, and Gao Shun were also rushing towards Lu County with all their might, and hundreds of thousands of Yan troops and Cao troops on the east and west fronts were already entangled in one place, and the situation between the fierce battles was like a mess, and no one dared to say lightly that they had taken the initiative in the battle for the time being. As the commander-in-chief of the battle of Qingyan, Zhao Yun and Guo Jiajiaxu and others have already rushed to Cangxian County, Qingzhou to conduct the nearest command, this is the first time that Zilong has taken on such a large-scale battle alone, so naturally he will not be taken lightly, and all the previous mobilization arrangements and cooperation of the Yan army are also very detailed!
And Liu Yi himself did not go to Cangxian with the third brother is still in Yecheng Town, since he has handed over this battle to Zhao Yun, he will only have an impact on it so that he can not let go, at this time the battle situation in Qingzhou is quite obvious, and there is not too much change, the two sides are comparing speed, to a certain extent, even if Liu Yi goes in person, he may not be able to defeat Zhao Yun, even if he has always valued him, he might as well give his third brother who has always been important a chance to command a big battle, which is also a very rare experience for generals, Not everyone has the honor of leading hundreds of thousands of troops to fight on the battlefield, and it will be a huge test for them to control the overall situation and coordinate the various armies, and it can establish a very high prestige in the army, of course, the premise is that this battle can be won!
In fact, when Lang Sheng let Zilong sit in charge of the battle situation in Qingzhou, he also proposed a strategy led by him, Yan Gang, Fan Chou and others to break into Yanzhou to contain the defenders of Xiahou Yuan, in order to make the war in Qingzhou more beneficial to the Yan army! However, as soon as this law was proposed, it was strongly resisted by Jia Xu, Guo Jia, and Zhao Yun! But from a strategic point of view, this method does have a certain feasibility, but it must also take into account the restrictions of seasonal factors on the cavalry, with a team of light horses deep into the enemy's hinterland, regardless of success or failure, it is a risky method, and King Yan must not risk himself!
Liu Yi did not stubbornly insist on this, although this method seems to others to be a bit risky, but he believes that it is never too risky to lead the elite cavalry of the Yan Army by himself, in fact, Guo Jia and others are not ignorant of the ability of the Yan King, but since the established strategy of the Yan Army is based on stability, they must try their best to implement it, otherwise it will not change the order overnight, not to mention that there will never be less accidents on the battlefield, and this plan will be unanimously rejected after weighing the two phases!
In addition to all of the above, Liu Yi also has an important reason for leaving himself in Yecheng, that is, he also wants to withdraw himself from this war, and analyze the development and changes of the battle situation with the mentality of a bystander, maybe there will be an unusual harvest, and if Zhao Yun's command makes a mistake in taking 10,000 steps back, Guo Jiajia and Jia Xu will wake up in time, Qingzhou really doesn't have to worry too much about him, and he can also look at the overall situation with a slightly relaxed mood, as the saying goes, "The authorities are confused, and the bystanders are clear". In the previous battles, he was personally in charge, and Liu Yi really never tried to observe the development of the battle from the perspective of a third party!
After so many years of soldiers and more than ten years of fighting, no matter what kind of battle situation Liu Yi has had personal experience, and now among the princes of the world, I am afraid that Cao Cao will be inferior to him when it comes to actual combat experience, but it is also in response to that truth, the higher the level, the less courage, which is not derogatory. Masters in the layout are trying to avoid accidents, especially when the advantage is in hand, if there is no unexpected battle, there is no suspense, although they know that it is extremely difficult to do this, but they will still try to cover everything! Heroes like Liu Yi and Cao Cao, their confidence is built on great victories again and again, and it is absolutely difficult to shake them when they are idle!
The experience and thoroughness of the battle formation are advantages, but it is also very likely that you will fall into a fixed thinking routine and not know how to change it. Attacking Hanzhong as a response to Liu Yi's Qingzhou campaign is undoubtedly the best battle plan for Cao's army at the moment, and in addition to this, they will all fall into the careful preparation of the other party and be supported by the downwind! It can be said that it is not difficult to save Zhao from Wei and avoid the real and the virtual, but Cao Cao and his subordinates did not expect it, and the law is very appreciative of it, this is the importance of the flexibility of the idea, and the law filial piety did not fall into that fixed routine soon after the first time Cao Cao, it is not surprising that there is this vision!
Of course, it is not only Cao Cao and Xun Yu and others who are not very alert to this, Liu Yi, Zhang Hu, Guo Jia, etc. are also a few beats slower, although there is an unpredictable impact on the battle situation, but the rigidity of thinking is extremely terrible for Liu Yi, who is determined to dominate the world, and there is nothing wrong with firm principles, but being too straightforward will lead to no change and make it easy for the enemy to deal with the key points! And sometimes the more fully prepared but the more there will be a psychology of gain and loss, subconsciously always feel that there are loopholes everywhere, which is to prepare more than lost, but there are also prepared words, these seem to contradict each other and the relationship is intricate but they are all real existence, how can it be simple to compete for the world? The key lies in whether we can grasp the key points of the problem and find out where the main direction lies.
In front of the two battles with the Cao army in Qingzhou, Hanzhong, what is the purpose of the Yan army? This question has been answered as early as the two-year strategy, that is, to squeeze the opponent's living space to the maximum extent by taking advantage of the strength of the army, and gradually encroaching on its own superior strength! Whether it is on the battlefield or the people's livelihood, Liu Yi must gradually expand his advantages, this is an unchangeable principle, and it is also a unanimous decision after careful deliberation by everyone! This principle is certainly not wrong, but in the process of practical application, is there a place to blindly seek perfection? Is the main energy too scattered? Lang Sheng in Yecheng has been thinking about this problem.
"Save people and lose land, people and land will survive, save land and lose people, people and land will be lost", Liu Yi has long been familiar with this sentence, and when he let himself jump out of the battle situation to think about the war situation without saving or losing his heart, he still has a lot of new understanding. Although there are two battles with the Cao army in front of him, the main direction of the Yan army is still between Qingyan, and four words are enough to summarize its combat purpose - to destroy the enemy's main force! In order to achieve this main purpose, all military means must serve it!
From this point of view, the decision to immediately attack Qingzhou Yu Ban is still correct and timely, and mobilizing almost all the front-line elites to participate in the attack can also be said to be the best policy, if the first battle can win the Qingzhou battalion in the ban, the morale of the Cao army will be a major blow, and the subsequent Yanzhou operation can also achieve twice the result with half the effort! This move to Qingzhou should be regarded as grasping the main direction of the contradiction! Of course, the mistakes are not nothing, when weighing the overall situation, he attaches a little too much importance to the gains and losses of Yongliang in Hanzhong, and has a more thorough psychology for the Qingzhou battalion of the Cao army, just thinking about eating one of the stutters to achieve a comprehensive victory in this battle with the overwhelming momentum of Mount Tai!
If the general trend of the world at this time is compared to a game of chess, then Liu Yi's sub-force equipment already has a heavy momentum, and it is inevitable that the enemy will use a clever move to reverse the situation, and there is no need to have any surprise and burden on this, just deal with it calmly, as long as the main direction of attack can make a breakthrough, what does it matter if the rest of the places give up some interests? Wasn't Cao Cao's abandonment of Qingzhou also for this purpose? His response came before himself, presumably Yu Wenze's actions were afraid to be one step ahead of the Yan army, this battle was gratifying to be able to completely annihilate the Qingzhou battalion, but as long as he injured most of his own strategic purpose, it could also be called achieved, and it was not beautiful to force the best result.
Of course, the law is taken from it, and the requirements put forward to the various armies are unchangeable, and what Liu Yi wants to improve is his own state of mind, which must be consistent with his current status. Back then, he would wield the blood dragon halberd at every turn and personally charge into battle, but now such a situation rarely occurs, this is also a kind of mood improvement, as the soul of the army, he can enhance the morale of the soldiers, not necessarily only the way to take the lead, the means are always diverse.
With such a mentality and then make a detailed analysis of the current battle situation, the overall situation can be seen more transparently, Qingzhou Youzhou Yan Army's battle has only one word is attack, the attack will be endless, its momentum is like fire, whether it is the strength or the preparation before the war Yan Army has already had a solid foundation to do this, and in Hanzhong is also a word can be solved, drag! The strategic idea given to Zhang Hu was to drag Cao Cao's army to the end, as long as this goal can be achieved, it is acceptable to pay a certain price, even including the gains and losses of Hanzhong and Yongliang Prefectures! Of course, whether it is the former or the latter, Liu Yi will only convey his strategic direction to the generals of the unified army, and how to implement it will be up to them on the front line to improvise, and he will also reduce his interference.
The direction of the main battle can be determined between Qing Yan, Liu Yi is going to concentrate his energy here, this time he even considered the problem from the perspective of Yu Ban, and designed all kinds of ways to get out of it, compared with the offensive that the Yan army has carried out in front of him, it is not easy to get out, at least a big war is inevitable, and now the key question is how much loss the Yan army can bring to the Cao army in this war, which is also an important basis for the next Yanzhou battle strategy! However, with this means of communication, all of Liu Yi's thoughts depend on whether the generals on the battlefield can comprehend it, and these Lang Sheng under his command have always been full of confidence, and this time is no exception!
Now in this part of Hanzhong, Cao Cao's strength is in absolute upper hand, whether it is Zhang He's Tiger Guard Army or Zhang Liao's Yanyun Army, there is still a distance, and it is still Cao's army that occupies the advantage of strength between Lu County and Fei County, and the strength of Xu Huang's Longxiang Army and the Liyi Fire Army is only 120,000 horses and can be used for a little less between the wars, and there are 100,000 people in the forbidden department alone, plus tens of thousands of reinforcements led by Cao Renlejin! However, they can't be as unscrupulous as Cao Cao in Hanzhong, the advantage in front of them is only temporary, as soon as the Yan army reinforcements arrive, the situation will be completely reversed, and it is Yu Ban and others who are more eager than the other party.
As the saying goes, heroes see the same, in the response to the battle situation, Xu Huang and Le Jin, who are both good generals of the five sons, thought of a place, Gongming made a little judgment and led the army to give up the attack on Feixian and rushed to Juxian in the north, he received the white axe information halfway Le Wenqian did not know, and he was able to judge that Xu Huang's change of attack direction was based on the strength of Ji Ling and others' attack on Feixian, and the follow-up forces of the Longxiang battalion seemed a little slow to keep up, and then carefully investigated the terrain around here, Juxian also became his must-defend place! This time, Xu Huang's action was a detour, and the road that Lejin judged accurately was also closer to the other party, so the two armies rushed to this county seat almost at the same time, and the street battle in Lu County was the same, and the fierceness of the battle here was never inferior!
Needless to say, the combat power of the Long Xiang army is one of the best ace divisions in the Yan army, but in this battle, they are difficult to break through the defense line of the Cao army, and the enemy army in Ju County seems to have a special temperament, that is, the battle to the death does not retreat like a mad tiger, and the kind of fighting without dying is not lost to the battalions of the Long Xiang army, and it is natural that the battle situation under the opponent is anxious! Le Jin knew that he was facing the famous Yan army general Xu Huang Xu Gongming's Longxiang elite soldiers, and Gongming also saw from the momentum of the other party's soldiers that the Cao army here must be Le Wenqian's Chen Liuying, this person is not good in appearance among the Cao army generals, short in stature, but is extremely fierce, after the battle of Yanzhou Liu Yi personally led the iron cavalry for the army, in addition to the forbidden Qingzhou battalion, it is the Chen Liuying under the command of Le Jin, even in the face of the enemy cavalry, as long as Le Wenqian gives an order, those soldiers dare to take the initiative to attack regardless of life and death, There is indeed an unspeakable madness!
The battle of Juxian is the first head-on collision between the two strong armies, and both sides received death orders, one to intercept to the death, the other to desperately respond, the soldiers are all going all out to kill the corpse mountain and blood sea is extremely common, this big battle for a full hour, the terrain occupied by the two sides is not much different from the beginning, but it is more staggered, neither side can break through the other party's defense, every step has to pay a heavy price!
Suddenly, the sound of chaotic footsteps came from the official road, and the two sergeants quickly saw that this was a large group of Cao soldiers in green shirts, at this time Lejin's face was joyful, and Gongming was even heavier, the appearance of the Qingzhou battalion soldiers here can only mean one thing, the interception of the Liyi Fire Army failed, at least it was not successful, but after a while, the faces of the two changed again, Although the Qingzhou battalion is a steady stream of from the official road, but behind it and on both wings, there are Yan soldiers to chase and kill, and the two sides do not forget to fight while marching, the scene is a spectacle, this Yan soldier is of course the fire army of Liyi!
In the battle of Luxian, the battle in the county town finally won the upper hand of the Yan army, but the reason was not that the Qingzhou battalion was invincible, but that Yu took the initiative to give up the entanglement here after the ban, and he retreated wholeheartedly towards Feixian. Although the soldiers of the first battalion of the Flame Army led by Lu Xiang received reinforcements from their comrades, they could not block Li Dian's crazy impact after all, and the formation was rushed out of the gap by the other party, and the Qingzhou battalion marched very quickly, and did not kill the Lu Xiang Department who had suffered heavy casualties, the purpose of the ban was very simple, as long as he broke through the blockade of the other party and drove to Feixian to join Lejin, he had already completed the task of the main bus generation, as for Ju Yi's Fire Army, even if there was a chance to work together to annihilate it, he would not be tempted by it, It took a lot of time for him to be intercepted and killed for a while, presumably the Yan army Beiping and Liaodong Storm were chasing closer and closer, he could never do too much entanglement with Liyi, even if he lost some more soldiers when retreating, it was better than being besieged by the Yan army, and he would never underestimate their marching speed!
Yu Wen has his abacus, and Lu Yi also has his own ideas, once Lu Xiang can't block the official road, it is extremely difficult to completely block the Qingzhou battalion, he has no time to investigate who is responsible or analyze the gains and losses of his own march, there is only one means in front of him, catch up and entangle Yu Ban, even if he can't stop his retreat, he must do everything possible to slow down his speed! According to the position of each army before the campaign was launched, as long as he can drag the other side until tomorrow afternoon, the vanguard of Taishi Ci's Beiping Army should be able to catch up, and the strength will be leveled!
The withdrawal was accompanied by constant fighting, and Yu Ban did not hesitate to let Yan Jun cut off a few tails for the sake of speed, but how could Koji Yi fall for him? I wanted to surpass the vanguard of the Qingzhou battalion and block it again, so a never-before-seen scene was staged between the two armies between the chase! The soldiers still seem to have forgotten to fight and compete purely for the speed of their feet, and sometimes the two sides are close but seem to be blind! It seems that they are friendly troops in a race, of course, this state sometimes changes with a certain soldier's can't help but shoot, fight, run, run, the footsteps of the Qingzhou battalion and the fire soldier have never stopped, and after a long time, the Yan army still showed a slight advantage in physical fitness, and also entangled the other party tighter!
You have to ask who Yu Ban wants to see the most during the withdrawal process? General Yu will definitely answer without hesitation, who is Cao Renle to arrest! And the same question, Lu Yi will not hesitate at all, Xu Huang, the commander of the Long Xiang Army! At the same time as he saw the vanguard of the Qingzhou battalion appear, Le Wenqian had already taken off the heavy armor on his body to the ground, brandished his sword and killed it, and at the same time, the sound of the horn sounded, and the attack of the soldiers of the Chen Liuying camp became even more crazy! They are simply desperate to collide with the Longxiang army's formation, and they want to use their bodies and indomitable courage to force the tough opponents in front of them back as much as possible to ensure that the Qingzhou battalion can pass through this room smoothly!