Chapter 175: Reason
After the messenger left, everyone on the field looked a little dull because of Yang Wu's frenzy just now, and they looked at each other and didn't want to take the initiative to speak. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
Yang Wu didn't care when he saw them, he just picked up the teacup and drank the tea slowly.
After a while, Tai Meng suddenly opened his mouth and asked with a smile: "What is the idea of the prince?" Didn't you think of some strategy to break the enemy? ”
Yang Wu smiled: "Didn't Ben say it? Since Ben General joined the army to lead the troops, he has won many battles, and tomorrow's decisive battle will definitely be a complete victory. Generals need not worry. ”
Tai Meng pointed at him with a smile and said, "Why should the prince hide it? Now that Tian Yan's envoys have left, you might as well talk about your thoughts and let everyone listen to them. The old man doesn't think that the prince is such an unwise person, and after the generals remind you, you will insist on a decisive battle with Tian Yan tomorrow, what must be the consideration. ”
The rest of the generals originally thought that Yang Wu was really just underestimating the enemy, but at this time, after listening to Tai Meng's words, they couldn't help but feel moved in their hearts, remembering that Yang Wu was not a person who could not be persuaded in the past, but today he insisted on going his own way, maybe he really had some inner thoughts. immediately looked at Yang Wu, with a look of expectation in his eyes.
Yang Wu put down the teacup and said with a smile: "The general knows that he can't hide it from General Taiwan." In fact, the general's plan is also very simple, generals, if the general is determined to stick to it and wants to wait until General Wang arrives before fighting a decisive battle, what do you think Tian Yan will do? ”
Mi Zhicheng and the others couldn't help but ponder, and after a while, Qin Pei was the first to speak: "If the last general is Tian Yan, seeing that the prince is bent on waiting for help, then the general may choose to retreat to Xuanzhou, relying on the strong walls of Xuanzhou City to continue to hold on, and wait for the situation to change." ”
"Not bad!" Yang Wu nodded solemnly and said: "If the general is also worried about continuing to hold on, Tian Yan sees that there is no chance of winning the battle in the field, and it is very likely that he will retreat to Xuanzhou." Imagine that Tian Yan still has 17,000 troops now, plus more than 2,000 people in Xuanzhou City, if he retreats to Xuanzhou, there will be nearly 20,000 defenders in the city; Xuanzhou has always been rich, and the reserves of money and grain are very sufficient, and if our army wants to break through Xuanzhou, I don't know how much time it will take and how many troops will be lost. Therefore, Ben will want to try to weaken Tian Yan's forces as much as possible in the battle outside the city. This is the reason why Ben will strongly advocate tomorrow's decisive battle. ”
The generals were silent, and then had to admit that Yang Wu was right. Wang Maozhang was able to break through Runzhou within a month because of a secret weapon called "black powder", but Yang Wu also said that there was not much black powder left, and it was only difficult to use it to blow up the city wall of Xuanzhou.
Moreover, when Qian Biao's outer city of Hangzhou was completely lost, it lasted for two or three months through street fighting, causing huge casualties to Tian Yan, not to mention that even if the city wall was successfully blown up, it would only open a gap into the city, and I didn't know how much loss it would take to capture the city.
So the best thing to do is to destroy as many enemy forces as possible outside the city.
"What the prince said is reasonable. However, now in the decisive battle, our army is at a disadvantage after all, and I am afraid that we may not be able to win the battle. If you are unlucky, you may still lose, then doesn't that give Tian Yan the opportunity to defeat our army and General Wang? Mi Zhicheng was still a little confused.
"Since the general promised to fight tomorrow, he is naturally somewhat sure. The first is morale, which goes without saying; The second point, speaking of troops, although Tian Yan has slightly more troops than our army, their main force is more powerful except for Xu Juan and Xu Zaisi's martial arts, and the rest of the army is actually mostly new soldiers, which is why Tian Yan left these people to guard Xuanzhou at the beginning. And our army is the real elite of a hundred battles. Therefore, in terms of troops, Tian Yu does not have an advantage. Yang Wu said with a smile.
On the side, Tai Meng also nodded and said, "Yes, this must be felt by everyone from the battles in the past few days." In the tentative battles with our army these days, the victors were all the people of Wuyongdu, and the rest of the Xuanzhou soldiers did not win when they fought with our army. Their battle formation was still a little rusty, and the implementation of military orders was also a little incomplete, obviously because there were too many new recruits in the army. ”
The generals nodded in agreement.
I saw Yang Wu continue: "In addition to the two points mentioned above, Tian Yan has a third weakness, that is, he is more eager to win than us, and he hopes to defeat our army with the least losses, and then further defeat General Wang Maozhang's reinforcements. And this gives us the opportunity to take advantage of it. ”
"I wonder what opportunity Shizi thought of?"
"Simple, the general showed a confident look when he met the messenger before, and forcibly suppressed the generals' suggestions in front of the messenger, and advocated a decisive battle with Tian Yan. Presumably, Tian Yan must now feel that Ben will be a light enemy after repeated victories. Then Ben will fight tomorrow as he wishes, pretending to be a light enemy and deliberately defeating him, but secretly setting up an ambush to lure him to attack. ”
"Tian Yan will definitely not let go of the opportunity to win, and he will definitely take advantage of the victory to pursue, and when our ambush is suddenly launched, why can't we defeat the enemy in one fell swoop?" Yang Wu said with a smile.
"The prince's plan is very clever, Tian Yan thinks that the prince is defeated by the enemy, so he will not guard against the ambush of the prince; What's more, he will definitely seize the opportunity to pursue the victory at that time, otherwise he will be in danger when the prince regroups and joins General Wang. Therefore, Tian Yu will inevitably pursue! Tai Meng nodded.
Mi Zhicheng and other generals listened to Yang Wu's arrangement, and then they knew that he was really not a light enemy, but a decision made with a clear understanding of the battle situation, and they couldn't help but admire it in their hearts.
Yang Wu immediately ordered Zhu Siqing to lead 3,000 men out of the camp overnight to an ambush on a hill three miles away from here, and let the rest of the soldiers rest and wait for tomorrow's decisive battle.
In the camp of the Xuanzhou Army, although it was late at night, the tent in Tian Yan's camp was still brightly lit.
A quarter of an hour ago, after receiving Yang Wu's reply, Tian Yan couldn't help but be overjoyed, and all the generals above the head of the Xuanzhou army would gather and summon over.
He didn't expect that his battle book Yang Wu would really accept it, and he couldn't help but secretly sneer at Yang Wu for being just like this, and he easily agreed to his request for a decisive battle.
He inquired carefully about the whole process of the messenger's camp in Yang Wu's tent, and after listening to it, he completely relieved himself, and felt that his plan had indeed succeeded, and that the young man who had won many battles, and even almost wiped out his army in the last battle, really became proud and complacent, and really underestimated him.
"Generals, Ben Shuai just sent someone to send Yang Wu a challenge book, and thought that he would choose to continue to hold on and wait for Wang Maozhang to come to converge, but I didn't expect that His Royal Highness the Prince of the World would despise Ben Shuai after winning consecutive battles, and actually regarded Ben Shuai as a waste of Guo Shi. As a result, he easily agreed to Ben Shuai's battle letter, and agreed with Ben Shuai to fight tomorrow morning! ”
"Ladies and gentlemen, this is our chance! It is the only chance to defeat Yang Wu before Wang Maozhang arrives, so the generals must rise up to kill the enemy, give Yang Wu a hard lesson, and let him know that our Xuanzhou army is not easy to mess with! ”
"In this battle, the generals should personally supervise the battle, and all the generals who are afraid of the cowardly, no matter who they are, will not be spared!"
"The last general obeys!"