Chapter 64 Strategic Arrangement

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In the next few days, the central civil and military attaches of the Great Zhao Empire were extremely busy and united. In fact, they are also clear. Although this country is surnamed Zhao, if it is really overthrown. Their words are no better. It is more comfortable to be an official in a country where the wife is peaceful than to be an official in a country where there is a lot of war and smoke.

In particular, Yang Dingshan, the left governor of the Chinese military governor's office, and dozens of officials and staff members in the governor's office, drew up a perfect battle plan on the fifth day. The total annihilation of the enemy army in the battle plan was also changed to capture and capture prisoners as much as possible after he was notified by Zhao Zhe. But this requirement is only a prerequisite that does not affect the victory of the war.

What made Zhao Zhe particularly satisfied was that in Yang Dingshan's entire battle plan, the actual mobilized guards were much less than Zhao Zhe had speculated. Only 150 guards and more than 800,000 horses were used. Among the 800,000 horses, more than 500,000 of them were drawn and assembled from Shanxi, Shaanxi, Huguang, and Yingtian, and steadily advanced from the flanks to Henan and Shandong.

Don't look at the transfer of 500,000 horses to form four group armies, but this is not the main battle corps in Yang Dingshan's military plan. But it exists as a huge net, and the big fish in Henan and Shandong are far away in it. The first is to stop the mob from spreading to the rest of the provinces. Second, after the mob is dispersed, it can be surrounded and annihilated. Although the combat effectiveness of the guards under the command of the provincial commanders is average, after all, most of them are semi-professional soldiers, uniformly trained and well-equipped. With a defensive heart and unified command, the combat effectiveness that can be exerted should be much better than that of the mob. Especially when the mob was defeated and fled, such a large number of local guards were a sharp weapon to capture prisoners.

Among the news that kept coming back, there was one news that still made Zhao Zhe feel a little relieved. That is, the original commanders of Henan and Shandong finally gradually condensed a mass of scattered sand. Except for those who are dead, and those who have escaped and are separated. The commanders of both places gathered 100,000 men each.

However, although there are 200,000 people in total, the morale of this defeated army is extremely low, and there is a shortage of food and equipment. To fend off a million-dollar mob, that's an absolute joke. Although both places commanded envoys to pass back through the political road, they said with great vigour that they would sacrifice their lives for the country and never let the mob step into the scope of the Beijing Division.

But Zhao Zhe and Yang Dingshan both thought that the two bastards were farting. If you really have this kind of thought, why do you keep fleeing towards the Beijing Division? It is necessary to state the difficulties of the present day at the end of the recital, what food and grass have been exhausted, what armaments have not been replenished, and the fatigue of the sergeants, etc. But bastards are bastards, and so many centaurs still have to be used. The two agreed to continue to let them rout. At the very least, a rout after a little resistance is more realistic than just pouting your ass.

Then Zhao Zhe and Yang Dingshan discussed the proposed purpose, and asked the capital commanders of Henan and Shandong to resist the mob, food reinforcements and the like, and the Beijing division was already raising. Wait, come to Yunyun. The mob Jingshi, the main military strength of the Jingshi now, has all been mobilized to the Jin barbarians after the resistance in Liaodong. The rest of the more than 1.5 million reinforcements have been mobilized from all over the country to gather in Henan and Shandong.

As for these holy decrees, they will be delivered by the Jinyi Guard. And the gang of people in the Jinyi Guard will also find a way to make this seemingly tough, but in fact it exposes the holy decree of the emptiness of the Jingshi's military strength, and accidentally falls into the hands of the leader of the chaotic army.

And this holy decree, except for the exaggeration of the number of reinforcements from all over the country by three times, and the emptiness of the military strength of the Beijing Division, which is false, the rest are almost all true. Under Yang Dingshan's secret instructions, the reinforcement associations in various localities carried out the plan of false troops, creating a momentum of 1.5 million troops with 500,000 troops. And the troops in the Beijing division will also create all kinds of smoke bombs, which seem to make the main army go to Liaodong.

Don't look at Yang Dingshan's only 300,000 troops from the Jingshi area, but these 300,000 troops are almost all the Zhili guards in the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies, and even include Zhao Zhe's more than 20,000 tiger cavalry troops and 1,000 Jinyi guards. Zhao Zhe, the emperor's direct guard, the Tiger Cavalry Army, is not mentioned as the top heavy cavalry of the Great Zhao Empire. The rest of the governors' offices stationed in Beijing are not vegetarians. Compared with the local guards, it is much superior in terms of individuals, the whole, and equipment. It belongs to the elite of the Great Zhao Empire, the trump card.

This mere 300,000 troops, even in a head-to-head battle, is more than enough to deal with a million mobs. This is also the main force that Yang Dingshan used to crush the mob. What's more, it is better to lure the enemy into the depths, wait for work, and if the tactics are used properly, you can also fight a beautiful ambush battle.

Judging from the entire battle plan, if everything goes well, the main force will be able to return to Korea in no more than three months. The cost of the entire budget is only about 8 million. After all, most of the troops transferred from other provinces were the Tuntian army. On their own, they can also be self-sufficient in food and grass. You don't need to let them go to the frontal battlefield, you just need to put on a show and clean up the remnants of the rout. Not to mention the spoils of war they themselves obtained, the central court only needed to give a military salary reward once after the war. According to Yang Dingshan's words, it is enough to give a surname of 3 million at a time. And among them, half of the Thai military salary was basically eaten by the middle and high-level of the army, and it fell into the hands of everyone.

As for the 300,000 elite Central Army, since it is the main battle force, not only must it be well fed and strong, but the price of various weapons and armor to replenish it is also very expensive. They are all descendant armies, and it is impossible to detain them. The military salary of five million in three months, after removing the expenses of food, grass and armor, can be distributed to each person about ten times. Coupled with the capture and distribution of the spoils of war, a battle can make a small fortune.

For Zhao Zhe, of course. These military systems, this fighting concept are all wrong. It's just that the time is too short to clean up one by one. You can only follow the local customs and do things according to the current rules. Later there will be time to put the army in order.

Naturally, the ultimate purpose of this battle plan was to lure the enemy deeper, and then rely on 300,000 ace troops with strong combat effectiveness to defeat him in one fell swoop. A mob is a mob, and once defeated, it will be defeated. However, such a simple plan has countless peripheral details. There are even all kinds of enemy reactions, non-cooperation, various assumptions and plans to fill the gaps.

Zhao Zhe spent some time again, and after discussing with Yang Dingshan and others for two days, he added and revised a lot of details. For example, it has increased the number of annihilators to blend in with the mob, and used factors such as the extreme wealth of the Jingshi and the beautiful women like clouds to incite the excitement of the mob. In order to prevent the leaders of the mob from having exceptionally clear minds and cautiously entering the Jingshi area, and so on.

The entire state apparatus rumbled into operation after Zhao Zheyu stamped his seal on the holy decree of the battle. The preparation and transportation of every material have entered into the formality. The guards in the garrison of the Beijing Division also began to make strategic moves in accordance with the battle plan. Eight hundred miles of urgency, and also in the case of exhausting many good horses, one after another orders, folded, sent to every place to command the envoys.

The weather in March has begun to warm people's hearts. However, in the following months, this ancient and magnificent land will set off another bloody storm.

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