Chapter Ninety-Three: Speculation
In the evening, the military camp outside the east gate of Anlu City was lit up, Xiyang County Gongyu Wen Wen was discussing the military situation with a group of generals, this afternoon there were major events in the city one after another, he and the chief steward Shi and the governor's mansion were attacked, although in the end they were all safe and sound, but after the enemy planned this attack, there was the next step that must be guarded against.
"The urgent report from Yuezhou came that Xiaochang was attacked and assassinated, and Xu Faguang was also assassinated at home, but fortunately, there was no major problem, the Xiaochang defenders repelled the thieves, and the city was worry-free." Yu Wenwen is reporting the latest situation.
Today, Anlu City was disturbed, and Xiaochang, not far to the east, was also a chicken, a dog, a dog, and suddenly the incident occurred in both places, and the casualties were not small, but fortunately, they finally carried it, according to the confession obtained by Yu Wenwen's subordinates who tortured the prisoners, this group of people pretended to be civilians and mixed with the people who moved south from Pingyang, and entered the border of Anzhou through Wuyang Pass.
With these confessions, Shi Duanhui, the chief administrator of Anlu, and other major officials found that the situation was serious: the other party came prepared, and the Shoutian of Pengyue County assassinated Xu Faguang, the assassin of Yuezhou, with the intention of seizing the city, so this means that Pengyue County has been invested in the enemy's army, that is, the Yuzhou army, and the Baiyan Pass north of Pengyue County is afraid that it will be more auspicious.
If Baiyan Pass is lost, then the Yuzhou army in the north is very likely to send troops south, without further ado, Duan Hui immediately mobilized troops and horses to go to Yuezhou Prefecture to govern Xiaochanghui and Yuezhou soldiers and horses to the north together, first recover the rebellious Yueyue County, and then continue to go north to support Baiyan Pass, and at the same time also spread the news to the Huangzhou Governor's Office in the east to ask for reinforcements.
"The other party planned so carefully that he would not watch from the wall after taking Baiyan Pass, and no matter what, he would block the Yuzhou army north of Pengyue County." Yang Ji analyzed that this conspiracy makes people chill when they think about it. If he is attacked by the other party today, I am afraid that the entire battle situation will change.
"How should Yingzhou deal with it?" Ma Jun's master, Shi Wansui, suddenly spoke and asked. These enemy soldiers who infiltrated Anlu were heading south from Wuyang Pass. Because of the large number of troops in the garrison of Wuyang Pass, they did not dare to make it difficult to grab the pass, after leaving the mountain, the east is Pengyue County, and the west is Yingzhou Prefecture to govern Yongyang, and Pengyue rebels, so whether Yongyang is safe and sound is also a matter worth noting.
The troops stationed at Pingjing Pass and Wuyang Pass consumed a lot of grain and grass from the Yongyang granary, and if the enemy soldiers who went south this time attacked the camp and set fire to the warehouse, the consequences would also be very serious, and if the supply of grain and grass was insufficient, the defenders of the pass could only reduce and could not go north to attack the border prefectures and counties of Yuzhou.
"There is a large army in Yongyang that has a lot of troops to defend it, and the enemy army is afraid that it will not be able to make waves." Tian Zhengyue, the owner of the infantry army, answered, and he and several owners believed that the enemy's troops entering the territory of Anzhou were limited, even if Shoutian Kai of Pengyue County did the internal response. The two sides have accumulated enough people to defend Pengyue City, and to sneak attack Baiyan Pass, to attack Xiaochang, and to get An Lu's assassination to mess up, this is already stretched, where can they divide their troops to attack Yongyang with eggs and stones.
"It is unlikely that the attack on Yongyang will be attacked, the enemy's idea is first to assassinate our important people in Anlu, so that the dragons will be leaderless and take Baiyan Pass at the same time, if we make a mess, they will wave their division and stab them in the south." Fifth Brother Chen, the military master, said a possibility that everyone agrees on.
Now the main force of the Anzhou army is making good progress in the siege of Jingzhou, if the Yuzhou army can rely on this plan to stab the Anzhou army in the abdomen, then it will get twice the result with half the effort: the henchmen sitting in Anlu are gone, and Yu Wenliang, the governor of Anzhou, can only bring the troops back to personally suppress the formation, and the offensive of the army in Jingzhou will inevitably weaken, and the Yuzhou army occupies the Baiyan Pass in the three passes of Yiyang and the Yueyue County in the south, so it has the ability to threaten Anzhou, so it can only blindly defend the dilemma of Shenzhou before changing.
"Day and night defense of the other party still shot, these days everyone should have more eyes so as not to be taken advantage of." After Yu Wenwen finished speaking, he drank a glass of water, "The duty of our army is to defend Anlu City, as long as Anlu is as stable as Mount Tai, the enemy will not be able to set off too much wind and waves!" ”
Today, during the deliberations of the governor's office, Yu Wenwen advocated that he lead the troops to Yuezhou immediately to recover the Yue County, as the so-called soldiers are fast, even if the Baiyan Pass is lost, but as long as the Yuzhou army goes south and arrives in the city before the Yueyue, the other party has no way to go further, for this proposition, Duan Changshi and others agreed, and the second half vetoed the first half.
Yu Wenwen couldn't leave An Lu, and he couldn't even leave the new army under his command. The intention of the chief manager to transfer Yu Wenwen back to Anlu was just in case: once Duan Changshi had an accident, Yu Wenwen and his new army would not be able to make waves.
Taking today as an example, if Duan Changshi is assassinated, Yu Wenwen, the second son of the governor of Anzhou, can calm the situation. His status can be gathered together with officials and generals loyal to the governor, and there will be no leader, and those who try to mutiny in the city with their troops in hand must also be weighed.
"No matter what movement occurs in the city, you must not act rashly without the general's instructions, lest people be diverted from the mountain."
"Before there is no further instruction, everything will proceed according to the plan, the east gate is still guarded by our army, and more horses should be rejected, but it is not allowed to be closed day and night, so as to support the city in time."
Most of the troops under the control of the chief steward Shi Duanhui were stationed in Anlu City, and Yu Wenwen's new army had been camped outside the city since the day they formed the army, and now they had decided to defend each other inside and outside to deter any forces that dared to make a move.
"The unification army, the last general is bold, may I ask if the unification army is worried that the other party still has a conspiracy?" Shi Wansui asked, and he found that although Yu Wenwen agreed with everyone's judgment of the situation, he still seemed to be thoughtful.
"Yes, Ben will always be very concerned, and the other party seems to have a link that is redundant." Yuwen Wen looked around at everyone present and said that he had doubts in his heart, but Yang Ji was about to speak, but he held back, because he could see that Yu Wenwen was asking the owners of the building to think more, and sure enough, after a while, the owner of the building Hao boldly said tentatively, Could it be that he was attacking Xiaochang.
"Exactly, let's think about it, there are two main points in Yuzhou's painstaking planning of such an action" Yu Wenwen began to discuss with his subordinates, and he first brought his thoughts together.
With Pingyang as bait for the Anzhou army to swallow, the soldiers who had been lurking followed the people south into the Anzhou territory and got rid of the surveillance and came to Shoutian in Pengyue County, the most critical two points came: pretending to be the Anzhou army to go north to attack Baiyan Pass, and go south to infiltrate Anlu to assassinate the chief Shi and others who stayed behind.
These two things do not need to be completed by attacking Xiaochang, and even attacking Xiaochang is a superfluous move: Xiaochang is the Huangzhou Governor's Mansion to the east and An Lu to the west, even if the surprise attack is successful, how to defend it next, where can they withstand the siege on both sides, and put all the people who attacked Xiaochang into Anlu to assassinate it, isn't the success rate higher?
Even if Yuzhou takes Baiyan Pass, it can wave its division south, but Xiaochang City is a bit chicken for them, Baiyan Pass is about seventy miles to Pengyue, and about eighty miles from Xiaoyue to Xiaochang, and the three places are a straight line, which is easy to be cut off, especially the southernmost Xiaochang, even if it is occupied by the left and right sides, it is a Jedi.
The Yuzhou army was still able to attack and support from Baiyan Pass, but at the same time, Xiaochang was besieged, and what did they use to save it, so Yuwenwen thought that attacking Xiaochang was an extra move.
Some people speculate that Tian Kai and Xu Yuanjun have a grudge, so they want to get rid of it first and then quickly, but another opinion is that revenge can only impact the Assassin Mansion, and there is no need to seize the city gate, and it seems that the other party really wants to take Xiaochang.
"Xiaochang is only forty miles away from Anlu in the west, and it is only more than a hundred miles away from Huangcheng in the southeast. After Yu Wenwen finished speaking, he looked around at everyone again, "The art of war is cloudy: if you attack it, you will save it, then the problem will come."
"Ben will guess that the other party's attack on Xiaochang is 'attacking it and will save it', and after our forces are concentrated on Xiaochang or Pengyue's side, they will definitely attack a certain target!" ……
Several groups of cavalry galloped north on the official road in three sections, the front, middle, and rear, and the afterglow of the setting sun sprinkled on them pulled a long back on the ground, and the outline of a city was faintly visible a few miles ahead.
"Team leader, do you want to rest for a while, the horses can't eat." A cavalryman said, speaking to a man in sleeve armor, who nodded to stop.
They were the cavalry sent by Xiaochang City in the south to investigate the enemy's situation in the already rebellious Yueyue, because the military situation was urgent, they knew that there was a great possibility of an ambush on the road, but they were still desperate to hurry, the only way to deal with it was to divide it into three sections: front, middle and back, if they were ambushed, at least half of the people would be able to return alive to report the news.
From the beginning to the present, they have not stopped all the way, seeing that the city of Pengyue is not far away, rushing to the vicinity of the city, there is inevitably a fierce battle, so they specially rested to recover their strength, Xiaochang to Pengyue about eighty miles, seeing that this long section of the road is safe and sound, they are a little puzzled: what about the ambush soldiers?
Today's Xiaochang was attacked, Shoutian of Pengyue County assassinated Xu Zhijun, and another thief attacked the city gate, after a vicious battle, the thieves were all awarded the head, and the messenger sent by Xiaochang also broke through the interception of the rangers outside the city to Anlu to report the emergency, and after the reinforcements came, Shangguan ordered them to go to Pengyue immediately to investigate, according to common sense, the other party must be intercepted on the road or set up an ambush in a dangerous place, originally thought that it was a life of nine deaths, until now it is safe and sound.
"Things are weird, I can't figure out where there is an ambush in front of you, everyone should be careful." Lu Jie, the leader of the cavalry, commanded earnestly, "Pay attention to the stumbling rope in a moment!" ”
"Team leader, let me go to the front, I am the only one of the old and the young." A soldier took the initiative to ask, but a few next to him smiled disapprovingly: "The stumbling horse rope may not be pulled up at the beginning, who is rare for you kid to be single-handed, those birdmen must let you go and wait for the crowd behind to come close before pulling!" ”
"Look at fate, everyone be careful for a while, whether you are dead or alive, then it depends on fate." Lu Jie also disagreed, he was used to seeing life and death on the battlefield and was no longer as good as he had been at the beginning, and whether he could survive the fight depended on luck.
Whether it is a general, a general, or a soldier, whether it is a veteran of a hundred battles or an immature recruit on the battlefield, as long as he is unlucky, he will lose his life, if he falls from a horse, if he is fatal, he will not even have many injuries, and if he is unlucky, he will break his neck bone, and in the melee, he will not be injured by the arrows flying wildly, and he will not be injured if he is lucky, and he will die of tetanus in a few days.
"Remember, the army will arrive later, I will wait to open the way, and the second is to explore the reality of the city, and if there is a living past, it will be harassed around the city."
"When the army arrives, none of those bastards will be able to escape!" (To be continued.) )