Chapter 77: If you don't think about winning, you should think about defeat first

In the tent of the Longzhong clan, Xu Ping sat at the table and looked at the sand table built in front of him. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info

In a few months, Lu Fang had already led people to find out the terrain in Sandu River clearly, and everything in the handsome tent was settled, so Wang Kai arranged for someone to make this sand table. The subordinate departments of Sang Yi and Gao Daquan above, that is, the Yu Zang Huama and the Party Xiang Army, which came to attack, were marked with small flags of different colors, which were clear at a glance. With the information sent by the personnel monitoring along the way, the armies on the sand table are also constantly changing, reflecting the situation of both sides in the valley at any time.

Closed to Xu Ping's handsome tent for nearly 100 miles, Yu Zang's whereabouts will take more than a day to deliver. As his team continued to go deeper into Sanduchuan, Xu Ping's time to get military information became shorter and shorter.

Seeing Wang Kai coming in, Xu Ping said to him: "According to the speed of Yu Zanghuama's march, today we should go to Gangu City built by Yang Wenguang's troops." Whether he will find clues there, he is suspicious, and this battle is very related. If he can successfully confuse Yu Zanghua Ma and let him lead the army deeper, Yang Wenguang should take a credit! ”

"The marshal is right. If Yuzang Huama was suspicious there, and refused to go deeper, but sent a small group of soldiers and horses into the valley to investigate, this battle would be a little difficult to fight. However, there is no food and grass in that area, and it is difficult for Yuzang to stay in the hemp. ”

Xu Ping nodded: "Yes, Fan Luo sent troops without baggage, and no one transported grain and grass for them, and tens of thousands of people couldn't stay in that kind of place for a day or two." ――By the way, why did Yu Zang Huama stay behind closed doors for an extra day, did he find out the reason? ”

"I'm here to report this. Liu Zhiyuan of Qinzhou came to the book, saying that it was a blind priest of the Shangding clan who wanted to kill his father and rebel, and wanted to make trouble behind the Xuanwei army. This matter should be related to Yu Zang Hua Ma, he waited one more day, I am afraid that it is just for this matter. ”

Xu Ping turned to look at the huge map behind him and sneered: "I didn't expect him to make this calculation." Our 10,000 troops in the area of Guweizhou were protected by Cao Du, just to deter Zhubo and cover the flank of the Xuanwei army. Pass my military order, let Cao Duhu personally lead the team, go to kill the blind Duo heart, and raze the Shangding clan tent! The people of his clan are scattered, and for the time being, let the Dragon Clan and the Zhang family take care of it, and then deal with it when the war here is over! ”

Wang Kai said: "Jie Shuai, don't be in a hurry first, Liu Zhiyuan has already made arrangements, should we wait first?" ”

Xu Ping took the letter of Liu Jian handed over by Wang Kai, unfolded it, thought for a while, and said: "It's okay to do this, if Jia Han can quell the rebellion of his own clan, he can set an example for the surrounding tribes in the future." -- Deliver an order to Cao Keming with enough troops to return to Guangwuling Fort and monitor from the side. Jia Han can pacify the Shang Ding clan, otherwise he will immediately cover up the past. The first battle of Sanduchuan does not allow any mistakes, the Shangding people are not far from Ningyuan Village, where there is a horse farm, a lot of money, grain, and horses, and it is where the headquarters of the Xuanwei Army is located, so they are not allowed to harass wantonly! Tell Cao Keming that he is not allowed to make a rebellion and the soldiers and horses of the Wei River are not allowed to get close to the Wei River! ”

Wang Kai received the order and went out to arrange for someone to draft a military order, and Xu Ping read it and sent it to Mu'er Gorge Village.

In the Tibetan tribes around Qinzhou, except for the largest Qingtang clan, even if all the other tribes are dispatched, they will gather up to three or five thousand people, which is not enough to pose a threat to an important place like Ningyuan. The blind duo is in turmoil, it should be from the mountain path, the area of Luomen Village and Yongning Village, and the side should attack the Yuzang Huama Department of Fuqiang Village.

Wang Kai's military order was issued, and Xu Ping asked him to move Wen Sangyi, reminding him that the Shangding clan was in rebellion, and he might invade Yongning Village, so that he could take precautions as soon as possible. It was originally his defense area, and there were plenty of soldiers and horses, and a Shangding clan couldn't pose much of a threat to him.

Bringing together the surrounding military information into a map and a sand table, Xu Ping has put in countless efforts for most of the past half a year, and it is only now that he can be regarded as preliminarily able to do so. In comparison, Yu Zang Huama was blind in this march, and he knew nothing about the preparations of the Qinzhou army, and almost all the so-called military information he heard was wrong, and he could only walk step by step into the trap set for him. The blind Duo heart is even worse in the mountains, and he doesn't even know how the Qinzhou army is distributed and stationed, and he bumps into it like a headless fly.

Gangu is also called Yuya, and the name comes from the fact that the tributaries that flow into the Sandu River here come from the hot springs on the mountain, and the hot water is called the soup at this time, so it is called Yuya. When this river flows into the Sandu River, the water quality is sweet, so it is also called Gangu.

Compared with the waste Anyuan village downstream, the flat land here in Gangu is smaller, and the terrain is more precipitous, choking the upstream of the Sandu River Valley Road. If you build a castle here, you will be able to block the safety of the entire Sandu River Valley Road.

By this time, the Song army had fled, leaving only an unbuilt city. The small city is surrounded by mountains in the west and the river in the east, choking the valley road to the south, and only opening the north and south gates. At this time, the city gate was not erected, and there were only two bare city gate holes.

The appreciator buried and Yu Zang Huama rode side by side on the horse, looked at the small city in front of him, and said: "Fortunately, the Song people didn't expect that we would go south from here and build this city to drag and drag." The terrain here is steep, once this city is built, where can it be breached in a hurry? ”

Yu Zang Hua Ma said: "The three clans of Xinbo who occupy this place hate the Song people to occupy their fields, and they can't stop harassing them, where can this city be built so quickly?" In the end, the Song people had no choice but to relocate the three Xinbo clans, but they lacked the manpower to carry the soil. If there is no accident, the city will be built, and if you want to go from here, you have to think twice. However, the three Xinbo tribes were moved, and we had no place to raise food and grass, so we should get out of Sandu River as soon as possible and go to Fuqiang Village to eat. I heard that Qinzhou recently opened a shop there, and there are a lot of treasures, as long as you occupy it, you won't come in vain! ”

Listening to Yu Zang's words, the appreciator moved in his heart, and said: "Just now, the Song army saw us from afar, so they fled. We're so smooth, there's no going to be a cheat, right? Although the gates of this city have not yet been built, but the walls have been built, if they defend the city, they may not be able to hold us back. As long as it drags on for a day or two, we will be able to transfer the Qinzhou army to block the valley mouth, and then it will be difficult for us to do it. Fleeing before they even met is unsettling. ”

Yuzang Huama laughed: "Lord Dutong is too worried, the one who builds the city here must be the army of the army." The Song people's van army is like a soldier under the adult, they can only do some miscellaneous work, where can they fight with swords and guns! When they saw our army coming, they didn't flee to the mountains early, and they didn't send us manpower in vain? When fighting a large army, you must be decisive and not suspicious! ”

The appreciator looked at the surrounding terrain left and right, shook his head, and said, "The king must not be careless, if we pass through here, those Song people will come out of the mountains and occupy the city, but we will be cut off from the way back." There are big trees in the surrounding mountains, and it is not difficult to make a city gate by temporarily cutting down some trees and lowering them down the water, and then it will be troublesome. So that the city has been built anyway, I will leave some men here to occupy it, and hold the retreat first, regardless of the battle ahead. ”

Yu Zanghua Ma said: "If you want to do this, it will be up to you." Anyway, the Zhan Cheng you brought here is no longer of much use, so you will send a few hundred people to stay, and by the way, the city gate will be erected. ”

"Before you win, you lose first, this is what a march looks like to fight!" As he spoke, he called his own soldiers over and arranged for manpower. And let the remaining Zhan Cheng go and cut down the great trees on the nearby hills, and erect the gates that were lacking.