Chapter 569: Planning
——Two in one, 4,000 words in a big chapter——
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The rhythm of war, in Wei Zhongquan's view, is very important.
Itself, at any cost, the high-intensity attack on Fan Guo is to win the rhythm of the war and contribute more to the victory of the entire Cangguo.
If you really wait for a whole set of procedures to come down, it slows down the pace, and it goes against his original intention.
After thinking about it, Wei Zhongquan still decided to ignore the surrender of Emperor Fan and continue to receive other cities.
Of course, in order to prevent Emperor Fan from resisting too strongly, Wei Zhongquan still asked Emperor Fan to submit a letter of surrender to give him some hope.
In this regard, Fan Zeng, the emperor of Fan State, could only smile bitterly and helplessly.
Because, as a matter of urgency, Fan Guo no longer has any qualifications to bargain.
You know, the so-called rule is nothing more than three aspects.
First, it is the right to money.
Second, military force.
Third, there is the law.
The paper money collapsed, the imperial court lost its financial power, the army was completely damaged, and in the troubled times, everyone was too busy to take care of themselves, where did they care about the law?
Therefore, the Fan court is almost collapsed.
At the end of May, Wei Zhongquan mobilized an army of 100,000 troops, marched from Fan, and attacked Mang in the north.
Suddenly, Mang Guo also fell into the battle on two fronts in the southeast.
However, the Qinglong Legion did not attack impatiently, because after the army entered the Fan Kingdom, it was also far away from the Cangchu Grand Canal, and it was difficult to replenish the logistics, so it was natural to stabilize the logistics first.
At this time, he realized how anxious the monarchs and ministers of Cangguo were before.
Because paper money is about to collapse, many people are reluctant to sell goods in a one-to-one manner.
What used to sell for one dollar now costs two dollars to buy.
In fact, the currency has not decreased much, but the price of goods has risen by a large wave, and the reason for this is that the people are haunted by a risk-averse mentality, and everyone does not want to sell what they have in their hands, especially grain.
Wei Zhongquan had no choice, so he could only order to mobilize grain from Chudi, and Fan only collected grain and grass on a small scale as a supplement.
Front...... It's too long.
The news of Fan's defeat and surrender caused a great shock in the world.
And this shock is no less than the advent of the red-coated cannon.
Because, it has always been the three kingdoms of Ruan, Wei, and Jin who have been acting as the main force to attack Cangguo, and the Fan State and Mang State in the south have been confronting the Qinglong Legion, and all countries have subconsciously acquiesced, and the south has always maintained a balance, and the key tiebreaker is in the north, and Ruan, Wei, and Jin still need to be a leader.
After Cangguo declared war on Jin and Kang, this kind of thinking was even worse.
But I never expected that Cangguo would plunge countries into chaos by manipulating paper money, Fan Guo suffered a heavy blow, Mang Guo was too busy to take care of itself, and the Qinglong Legion took the opportunity to attack and take Fan Guo.
Everyone found that the six countries that were supposed to be good attacked Cangguo, but after fighting, the Yun Kingdom was destroyed, and now the Fan Kingdom has been destroyed again, and only four countries are left among the six countries......
What does this mean?
Half of the rivers and mountains of the Dali Dynasty have been taken by the Cangguo!
The chances of victory for the nations are getting smaller and smaller.
Anxiety is the most common psychology of the monarchs of all countries, and Ruan Cairui is even more anxious, as the strongest country, although the country is also quite chaotic, but after a period of calmdown, it has been able to grasp it.
But what about the rest of the countries?
Dead lips and cold teeth.
What she is most worried about is whether Mangguo can hold on.
So, as soon as she learned that the Blue Dragon Legion was moving north and pointing at Mangguo, she sent troops to Mangguo to reinforce her, trying to keep there from any war in the south before the results of the battles of Ruan, Wei, and Jin came out.
In June, the Blue Dragon Legion waved its troops to attack Mang, divided into five passes, and carried out a fierce attack on a series of fronts in the south of Mangguo.
At the same time, the Guiyi Army also launched an attack on the Jin army led by Qin Kan.
In Kangguo, the smoke is rising again.
At the same time, the court of Cangguo also dispatched 200,000 soldiers again to enter the territory of Kangguo to fight against Qin Kan's 300,000 Jin troops.
With the help of 200,000 government soldiers, the Guiyi Army is also like a fish in water.
The tide is turning!
It was also at this time that the three kingdoms of Ruan, Wei and Jin really woke up to what the idea of Cangguo was.
Give the dummy!
On the one hand, the four major armies of the Cangguo, the White Tiger, the Vermilion Bird, the Xuanwu, and the Qilin tried their best to deal with the armies of the Three Kingdoms, as if they had not yet fought.
On the one hand, it continued to exert force on the battlefield between Fan Mang and Kangguo.
The strategic intention is very obvious, which is to first solve the weakness, and then free up your hands to solve the three kingdoms of Ruan, Wei and Jin.
It's no wonder that the Three Kingdoms think so, because judging from the current situation, Cangguo is doing this.
In fact, Cangguo really didn't mean this at first.
It's just that the situation has developed to this point, and it is just a matter of pushing the boat down the river.
By mid-June, the Guiyi Army and 200,000 government soldiers cooperated with each other, and successively used their superiority in strength to break Qin Kan's method of continuous protection and annexed most of Kangguo.
The three kingdoms of Ruan, Wei and Jin finally felt the crisis.
Under the auspices of the Jin State, the emperors of the three kingdoms met in Pengcheng, and they were allied by blood, and all matters such as grain, grass, and logistics were all advanced and retreated into one, regardless of each other.
This shows that the alliance formed by the three kingdoms is closer than the original alliance of the Cutting and Jin.
The common goal of the three parties is only to confront Cangguo.
As long as the war can be won, the so-called losses are already negligible, and the three countries are interdependent, so naturally there is nothing where you lose more and I lose less.
The main thing is to lose the war, and then to lose everything.
Among them, the emperors of the three kingdoms are not extremely mediocre, and such a simple truth can still be thought out clearly.
At the end of June, the armies of the three countries were frequently mobilized, and the major main army corps were like sharp blades, and the offensive posture was very obvious.
At the critical moment, Du Bian, the general of the Guiyi Army, received a letter from Yang Mu.
This time, he received an order to capture Kangguo at all costs.
As soon as Du Bian received the emperor's secret letter, he immediately ordered a lightly armed flying horse to march.
In the past two months, Du Bian has figured out a set of methods for Qin Kanlian's strategy of defending the war in Kang, and he has cooperated quite well with 200,000 government soldiers.
Based on the terrain of the northern part of Kangguo and the needs of long-distance travel, he took light cavalry as the vanguard army and divided the army into two battalions, the first battalion was the main battle cavalry, a total of 30,000, and the second battalion was a heavy infantry battalion with both war and transportation, tentatively set at 200,000.
This method solves the problem of the light combat strength of the main battle cavalry and the support of the vanguard army.
The main battle of the first battalion, led by Du Bian himself, the clothing of 30,000 cavalry, all replaced with leather armor, bows and arrows were all replaced with individual arm crossbows or traditional arm bows, during which the choice was decided by the knights themselves, the good crossbow is the crossbow, the good bow is the bow, the large crossbow and the large offensive and defensive equipment are all abandoned, each person is only equipped with a scimitar, a hundred feather arrows, and the regular carry three days of cooked food.
All these and so on, but with the word light, worthy of the name.
The second battalion was a rear-up baggage army, but this army was almost all foot soldiers, slowly advancing behind.
Therefore, the flying cavalry of the front army was responsible for breaking the enemy's mountain advantage, and the second battalion in the rear was the main force of the siege.
Du Bian knew very well that the difficulty of the expeditionary attack battle lies not only in the combat strength of the soldiers, but also in the ability to provide support.
The reason why many rushing battles have returned is often not that the main battle soldiers are not strong, but that the grain route has been cut off.
Nowadays, the light cavalry attack, which can advance or retreat at any time, gives full play to the advantages of the light cavalry to the greatest extent.
Today, Kang still has most of the country, and all of them are rugged and difficult to capture, such a long distance, without solid and reliable support, any play is useless.
And as long as the backup continues, 30,000 light cavalry will be able to crush the opponent in the way of sports warfare.
Of course, in the past two months, Du Bian and his deputy general Qian Fang also carried out detailed discussions, secretly sent spies, surveyed several major paths to the north of Kangguo, and set up a secret camp every 100 miles for later use.
After attacking to the northern border of Kangguo, these camps will become strong and secret grain storage and transportation sites, and each camp can send 3,000 elite soldiers to guard them, and then arrange ox carts and horse carts.
In this way, each camp can be turned into a comprehensive base for stockpiling, transporting grain, and replenishing and repairing weapons, and each battalion can be transported in sections, relayed, and delivered to the battlefield army.
After all, during the long-distance transportation of grain, the grain transported may be completely consumed by people, horses and cattle, and the rugged mountain roads are even more troublesome.
This strategy is something that many people did not expect.
After all, Cangguo has long had a track and a gallop road, and the problem of domestic grain transportation has not been a problem more than ten years ago, even if it is to attack Chu, it is very convenient because of the existence of the Grand Canal.
The northern part of Kangguo is famous in the world for being easy to defend and difficult to attack, and it has been coveted by the Jin State for a long time before, but it has not been breached, which can be seen in general.
The route chosen by Du Bian was for the main force to march along the seashore and at the same time, and on the way to this section, there were troop carriers to respond, and the speed could be much faster.
Then, the military situation of the Kang army was carried out again, and the opportunity was sought for a decisive battle.
In other words, the march of more than 300 miles should be reduced as much time as possible, so as not to be detected by the Kang army and thus expose the intention.
As long as the capital of Kangguo is approached with lightning speed, then it can catch Kangguo off guard, even if Emperor Kangguo does not want to move the capital, he only has to move the capital, and once the capital is moved, the morale of the army and the people will inevitably collapse.
The Guiyi Army adopted a new style of warfare, which was to the greatest extent and mitigated the impact of the terrain.
Then, it is to calmly seek fighters and eradicate the defeated Qin Kan army, even if the Kang royal family is exiled to the Jin State, it is only a trivial matter, not to worry.
Only in this way, on the day of the march, Du Bian sent four thousand cavalry scouts to clear the way in the fifty miles of land in the four directions of the front and rear of the army.
In this way, it will be able to capture a lot of Kang Guo scouts who may appear, and ensure that the mountain people, hunters, merchants, and others along the way do not report to the Kang army.
Because, no matter how lightly armed this 30,000-strong flying cavalry army, as long as the war horse gallops on the road, its rumbling sound is also terrifying, if it is not handled carefully, then it is bound to add a lot of difficulty, and it is very easy to fall into the ambush of the Kangjin coalition army, unable to get out, or even ambushed, and the whole army is annihilated.
A day after the 4,000 scouts were scattered, at about twilight, Du Bian led the main force of the cavalry to march out, and arrived at the land of a hundred miles east of Cannes overnight, and more than 30,000 war horses spread out in the vast coastal field, heading northwest like dark clouds.
Outside Cannes, where the army is stationed.
The generals of the Jin and Kang armies, including the Emperor Kang, gathered together.
Big-eyed staring, ants on the hot nest.
Including Qin Kan, everyone was helpless.
In the face of the general trend, even a generation of famous generals has no choice.
At this moment, a rush of footsteps came, and everyone's eyes turned to the shogunate gate in unison.
"Your Majesty, report to the generals, urgent military situation!" The visitor knelt on the ground, sweating profusely, obviously just running for a while.
"How?" Emperor Kang stood up abruptly.
"A team of horses, approaching Cannes, without a banner!"
There are no flags...... Who are the soldiers?
Beside him, Qin Kan was puzzled.
In fact, he has taken over the command of the Kang-Jin coalition army, and the war has always been clear about this period of time.
Where is the position of the Guiyi Army and the 200,000 Cangguo soldiers now, he is clear and clear, there is a front line like an iron-clad tight defense line, if the Cangguo army wants to break through, it has to be a big battle, how can a horse team suddenly appear?
Blatant, not like spies and scouts.
"Judging from the momentum, it seems to be the regular cavalry of the Cang army!"
At this time, the young general of the report whispered.
"What!"
"Regular cavalry?"
"This is coming?"
In the small shogunate lobby, the atmosphere suddenly froze.
"It's best to go! Don't hesitate! ”
Immediately, a group of Wenchen were in a hurry, like ants on a hot pot.
The country of Fan has been destroyed, and everyone has a sense of sadness.
"Too much deception!"
At this time, Emperor Kangguo suddenly shouted, and said: "I have been in the Kangguo country for two hundred years, and I can be regarded as an old prince, but I can't do it, I want to bully me and be weak, today I want to see, if I go to the front line in person, drum up the brave army, and see what the Cang army has to do!"
"Long live Your Majesty—"
Immediately, several generals around him all shouted emotionlessly.
The ministers and elders were shocked, and none of them spoke.
Emperor Kangguo has repeatedly ordered: "The imperial protectors are ready for war immediately!" All the goods are loaded into the wagon! Everyone, return to the house as soon as possible to clean up the clansmen and the army, and gather in the imperial capital tomorrow morning! Cheer me up and fight the Cang army!"
"Yes!"
Infected by this, even the Wenchen who had the heart of fleeing cheered up one by one and was instructed to go down.
In the early morning of the next day, the royal army and the army were all assembled under the city.
The remnants of the army, which had already been scattered, were all gathered.
Affected by the atmosphere of the emperor's personal presence, all the soldiers were full of red faces, and their morale was high.
At least, before seeing Cangjun, they were only apprehensive in their hearts.
Emperor Kangguo was very surprised, and shouted three times to bless Kangguo, and immediately ordered the army to go to intercept the Cang army.
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