Chapter 287: Strong on the outside and strong on the middle

Ye Tao smiled and said, "After taking the Changshi Pass, Your Majesty's request is to train the troops, then the Zhenbei Military Division is the most suitable." Yunzhou can put in about 20 battalions at a time, make a short sortie to eliminate most of the armies of the Zhenbei Military Division, and easily practice maintaining this kind of subject after the occupation. After taking the Zhenbei Military Division, if you can master Qingping Dao and Xiejiabao, you don't need to maintain many troops in the Zhenbei Military Division, and the army can be recycled to Yunzhou. The time was short, but the purpose of the training was also achieved. After capturing the Zhenbei Military Division, there is no need to worry about Xiling's attack on the Taizhou side, because as soon as the Chunnan side fights, they will not be able to draw many troops to deal with us. But I didn't dare to fight the northern tribes, because the road repair on the Benwolf Plains was still going on, and the logistics were really not available; Not to fight the Western Route Army is not to scruple about the agreement with the Gao family, but from Yunzhou to the side of the Western Route Army, the wilderness is continuous, and it is easy to form a stalemate. ”

Zhuo Mang nodded after hearing this, and said, "Ye Tao, it seems that you have worked hard, right?" It doesn't seem like an impromptu trick. ”

"Persimmon should be pinched softly." Ye Tao said frankly: "After the Samir family reached an agreement with us, Yunzhou was preparing for the westward expansion. But after looking at several plans, I originally thought that the plan of opening up the northern tribes and then advancing westward was much more difficult than the plan of attacking the northern military division and then advancing north. Regarding how to fight the Zhenbei Military Division, Yunzhou has more than one set of plans. The Zhenbei Military Division already has a situation of being strong from outside and cadres from the middle. ”

Ye Tao doesn't like to fight very much, but he is not afraid of fighting, especially this kind of combat that requires a high degree of organization and explosiveness in a short period of time, which is the specialty of the Yunzhou armies brought out by Ye Tao. As for whether the armies of Yunzhou are willing to fight? It seems that this has never been a problem, and Yunzhou has always been belligerent from top to bottom. The veterans who were classified as Invalids Farm Ranch trained very actively without supervision, just so that they might be able to return to the army, and they were so smart that they took the latest training syllabus from their former comrades-in-arms and subordinates to update their training content...... Fifty battalions are being refurbished. Regardless of whether the change of clothes is completed or not, the basic training is very implemented, everyone is holding back to see what the current combat strength is, although Yunzhou has not had a major campaign plan, but all kinds of drills have never been interrupted, and officers at all levels always continue to hint and ask for the consent of the government to carry out a short attack, and it is second to get some combat merits, Ye Tao estimated that most people just want to "scatter their hearts". Even Dai Yun, who is very patient. It seems that he is not very satisfied with conducting campaign exercises on the sand table, and has already brought out the Chinese military camp that is gradually being perfected several times to cooperate with other troops. As for the tribes on the Benwolf Plains that had a big war every year, although some of the elite soldiers were sent out to form Jingyun Cavalry, although sheep herding, sheep shearing, wool textile industry and preparations were made to establish a permanent settlement on the Benwolf Plain, a tribe's own city, etc., so that the tribal warriors on the Benwolf Plains had a lot to do, but they did not forget to fight. And due to the overall improvement in the supply of ordnance, food, non-staple food, and medicinal materials for the tribal warriors, the tribal warriors actually became more warlike. It used to be the northern tribes that went south on a different scale almost every year, and this summer began. Many tribes in the Wolf Plains began to "counterattack" on a small scale. Due to the small scale, everyone was not ready to fight, and Ye Tao only received some reports that were not painful.

If the news came out that a large-scale operation against Xiling would be carried out, and about twenty battalions of troops would be mobilized, Ye Tao estimated that the war documents he could receive could be piled up as high as a building. That's Yunzhou. A place with more and more specialties, but always a place of warriors.

On the other hand, the Zhenbei Military Division is not so ideal, and the main problem is. Jiang Xujing has never been able to combine the various forces of the Zhenbei Military Division, let alone comprehensively update the Zhenbei Military Division in terms of technology, equipment, and operational command, and now it still has a total military strength of nearly 200,000. After the defeat in the Battle of Yunzhou, although Jiang Xujing was able to send some Yanei-type figures back to the imperial court to serve and not stay in a dangerous place like the Zhenbei Military Division, which is not suitable for making military merits, he himself has changed from the original deep hope to the current treading on thin ice. The losses of his headquarters are not too serious, but the two divisions of Ni Sigui and Jia Qingyun, who originally thought that they were helpers, have not been able to really recover their strength, and the incorporation and rectification of Zhao Li's department have just been completed, plus several troops under the command of Jiang Xujing in the name of a certain battalion in various places. The sum of these most critical professional armies is less than 100,000 people, and among the remaining troops, the most effective force is the Daoming Sect's apologetic army. And although the Guardian Army dares to fight and fight, and it really encounters a tough battle, Jiang Xujing also dares to put the Guardian Army in the most important position, but that is only limited to defensive operations. The Armored Cathars were able to hold off the enemy with religious fervor in defensive battles, and would not easily break up even when the casualty rate was more than half of them, but the Cathars were almost completely useless in offensive combat because their mobility was so poor. With Jiang Xujing turning a blind eye, the Guardian Army has expanded to more than 40,000 people. But there were only 6,000 to 8,000 war horses.

Other than that. What worries Jiang Xujing is the strong corrosiveness of the Guardian Army in the territory of the Zhenbei Military Division. In order to expand their power, the missionary activities of the cathars and the local Daoming religious priests and the incitement of the believers have made Jiang Xujing faintly feel uneasy. Because once the cathars encounter something related to the Daoming Sect. It is often uncontrolled, for example, recently, the Daoming Sect has had many large and small conflicts with the people of the Thunder Yin Demon Sect that are thriving in Taizhou and the southern part of the Zhenbei Military Division. Because Sun Boping has a close relationship with the Thunder Yin Demon Sect, he naturally protects the Thunder Yin Demon Sect. And because of the various consumption of the Zhenbei Military Division, half of Tai has to pass through Sun Boping's hands, although he disagrees with Sun Boping's protection of the Lei Yin Demon Sect, he can't be too lenient because of the Guardian Army under his hand. As a result, even the Guardian Army has different voices against Jiang Xujing. Now it is not an exaggeration to say that the Zhenbei Military Division is a strong foreign and a middle cadre.

The decay of the army's combat effectiveness, and the fact that the passage in and out of Xiling is still in the hands of the Yunzhou side, coupled with all kinds of internal discordant factors, make Jiang Xujing, a northern cavalry general who is not much of a talent outside the command of the army, overwhelmed. After the battle of Yunzhou, he returned to Beijing twice to report on his work. The second time he reported on his duties, he did not bring any troops other than his own personal guards, which was an obvious gesture. As for going to Taizhou several times in the past year to meet with Sun Boping and coordinate how to deal with the matter of the Lei Yin Demon Sect and the Daoming Sect, it is nothing. These repeated departures from the Zhenbei Military Division are themselves a clear indication of Jiang Xujing's control over the Zhenbei Military Division and the reduction of his trust.

Although Ye Tao did not operate an espionage system for Xiling outside of the Dongping Intelligence Bureau, he had a good relationship with the Intelligence Bureau, coupled with people like Lei Yin Demon Sect and Sun Boping who could provide information to him, especially Sun Boping also had the responsibility of supplying the Zhenbei Military Division, and he really knew a lot about the Zhenbei Military Division. And although Ye Tao doesn't like the feeling of being in a high position, as an envoy of Yunzhou, he can also be called diligent, at least these documents that should be read and other things have never shirked.

A thought flashed through Ye Tao's mind, and he immediately said this thought. His idea was to quietly prepare all the time, and then start the mobilization of the entire territory of Yunzhou only fifteen days before the offensive against Xiling, and all the troops would arrive at the predetermined place on time one by one, eat, rest, and then continue to march, and then enter Xiling in a predetermined order, and after a high-intensity continuous operation of no more than a month and a half, the complete combat objective would be reached, and then the troops and civil affairs officials who took over the local defense would be stationed one after another, and the results achieved by the Zhenbei Military Division would be consolidated in the shortest possible time. Then the main battle forces left on all fronts, except for the garrison troops. The total duration of the operation was no more than three months, during which almost every unit put into operation had to move and fight without stopping...... And the careful preparation in advance, the elaborate deception, and the troops remaining in Yunzhou have been constantly carrying out all kinds of feints in the past few months, and there is too little time for people to organize a large-scale offensive, if it can be carried out smoothly, by the time those surrounding opponents, especially the Northern Liaoxi Route Army, are ready to launch an offensive, they will find that all the troops have returned to the starting position, and their hastily prepared offensive has lost its meaning.

And when Ye Tao finished speaking, he also admitted that in fact, this combat method was very similar to the operation carried out by Tong Bingwen's troops after capturing Xunshan Pass when the Blood Qi Army attacked for the first time, and there was indeed the possibility of turning explosive operations into stalemate operations, but the various military operations before and after that were completely different. All of these people present were experts in military command, and they were immediately attracted by this somewhat adventurous and somewhat crazy idea. Such an operation does have to take considerable risks, and if it falls into a stalemate battle, even if Sun Boping constantly drags the back of the Zhenbei Military Division, it will still make things very troublesome. At that time, due to the offensive in Chunnan, it is unlikely that Xiling will be able to draw enough troops to fight, but it is not necessarily on the part of the Northern Liaoxi Route Army. Although he made an agreement with Gao Senqi, Ye Tao had no doubt that once he found that there was a advantage to take advantage of, the Gao family would definitely attack without hesitation.