The battle to destroy the Han Dynasty, which had been brewing for more than half a year, finally kicked off in the summer of the first year of Taining. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

The target of this campaign was the Cheng Han who seized Shu, and due to the geographical danger in Shu, the Privy Council formulated a plan to attack Shu in three ways. In addition to the Left Route Army, which served as a feint to lure the enemy, there was also the Middle Route Army, which was responsible for land and water raids, and the Right Route Army, which carried out a great roundabout.

Not to mention the left and center armies, the roundabout plan of the right route army alone is very grand.

As early as before the left and central armies started fighting, the right route army had set out from the plateau, and then along the Sichuan-Tibet line on the ancient tea horse road in later generations, across the entire southwest, and launched an attack on Yuewang County in the rear of the Shu side.

With the help of the Qiang tribes, Yao Yizhong, the former leader of the Qiang tribe, led the Right Route Army from the Xihai Plateau all the way south to implement a great detour strategy against the Cheng Han.

What is a big detour strategy? It is a tactic that conceals one's own strategic attempts, does not directly contact the enemy, but encircles the enemy's strategic campaign group on a larger scale, and ultimately achieves the goal of the campaign.

In the history of China, there are two cattle people who are masters of implementing the strategy of great detours.

One is Genghis Khan, a generation of Tianjiao who dominates the Eurasian continent, and the other is Mao Gong, the founder of the republic.

Both of them have adopted a strategy of great depth and great detour, and the results of the war are also unprecedented.

In 1244 A.D., according to Genghis Khan's strategic concept, the Mongol army began to implement the first great detour strategy of first going to the southwest and attacking the Southern Song Dynasty.

By 1253 AD, Kublai Khan raised 100,000 troops and began his second great detour strategy against the Southern Song Dynasty.

The Mongol cavalry marched across millions of square kilometers of territory, a spectacle of thirteenth-century warfare.

There is no doubt that Genghis Khan and his successors created the classic strategy of the Great Circuit.

At that time, in order to cut off the rear route of the ***** army that tried to retreat to Hainan Island and abroad, JW formulated a strategy of great detour and encirclement of Guangxi and the southwest, and comprehensively outflanked and annihilated the ***** army in Guangxi and the southwest.

Since the recovery of Qinzhou and the destruction of Tuyuhun, the Yan State has continued to appease the Qiang people living in the deep forests of the plateau, and has penetrated its influence into the Qiang people.

This undoubtedly created the conditions for the implementation of the Great Roundabout Strategy today, because almost all the places along the way of the army were Qiang tribes.

In this way, as long as it can get the support of the Qiang tribe, the Right Route Army will have a good chance of realizing the strategy of great detour. Once the battle of attacking Shu starts in this way, Cheng Han will not only face a threat from the north, but also the rear of the south will also be attacked by the Yan army, which will definitely make Cheng Han defenseless and exhausted.

The strategic purpose of the Privy Council was very clear, and the three armies were both open and covert, with the Left Route Army responsible for frontal feints, the Middle Route Army responsible for land and water raids, and finally the Right Route Army concealed and carried out a great detour to outflank them.

Of course, no military plan of action has ever been perfect, and this grand roundabout strategy formulated by the Privy Council is also very risky, like a double-edged sword, and if it is not used well, it will hurt itself.

In order to ensure the success of the Great Roundabout Strategy, the Privy Council specially transferred Yao Yizhong, who was born from the Qiang people, to serve as the commander of the Right Route Army, and most of the soldiers were from the naturalized Qiang tribe, all in order to reduce the resistance of the local Qiang tribes.

In addition, due to the inaccessibility of people along the route, the Privy Council provided 100,000 war horses for the transportation of materials for the 30,000 army on a roundabout mission to ensure the logistics supply of the army.

This is also thanks to the large number of horse farms in the Yan Kingdom, and the occupation of large grasslands at the southern foothills, northwest, and northeast of Yinshan Mountain, so that the Yan Kingdom can easily mobilize hundreds of thousands of horses for war at one time.

At the same time, just in case, according to the deployment of the Privy Council, the Right Route Army carried a lot of salt and tea, which were used to give tribal leaders or exchange supplies along the way.

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Yao Yizhong carefully walked through the mountains and dense forests, and when he encountered a fork in the road, he would take out a map to check the direction, and repeatedly guide to confirm whether the route was correct, which can be said to be careful and careful.

You can't blame Yao Yizhong for being so cautious, it is true that he had made a military order before the war and gambled his life, and this battle can only succeed and not fail.

It turned out that after the Privy Council put forward the strategy of the Great Roundabout, there was a quarrel over the selection of the main general, and the candidate could not be established for a long time.

The roundabout strategy requires a very high quality of the main general, not only to be deeply familiar with cavalry command, but also to be good at dealing with Hulu, and finally to have the ability to unite people's hearts.

After all, tens of thousands of troops traversed thousands of miles through the inaccessible mountains and dense forests, and the difficulties were unimaginable. Therefore, how to unite people's hearts and let all the soldiers unite under their command is the most important responsibility of the general.

In fact, the most difficult thing to fight in the battle of exterminating Shu is the detour!

First of all, the time requirements are very tight, and it must be successful in late October in a roundabout way to cooperate with the center and left to destroy Cheng Han.

The second is that the route itself is also difficult, basically in the inaccessible deep mountains and old forests, and deep in the snowy plateau.

Except for a few Qiang people and hunting houses, almost no one walks on this route, and even ordinary Qiang people living in the depths of the mountains have not many people walked.

Sometimes you don't see the sun for a whole day, and in this case, if you don't have a guide to guide you, it's certain to get lost.

It was precisely because of the fact that it was not easy for the army to make a detour that made the Privy Council in a dilemma, hesitated and made a decision, and in desperation, he had to report to Wei Shuo and ask King Yan to decide.

Who can be entrusted with such an important detour task?

Wei Shuo thought about it and found that only Yao Yizhong, who was born in the Qiang tribe, was suitable to complete this roundabout task.

He thought about it and felt that he was a better candidate than Yao Yizhong, first of all, Yao Yizhong's identity as the leader of the Qiang people would make it much easier to communicate with the local Qiang tribes.

Secondly, Yao Yizhong was a general who was good at cavalry command, and he had served as the governor of Bingzhou for many years and knew how to pacify the soldiers.

So after thinking about it, Wei Shuo found that only Yao Yizhong was the most suitable candidate. But who knew that when the name was passed to the Privy Council, it caused a lot of turmoil, and many people had a lot of complaints about Yao Yizhong as the commander of the Right Army.

Specifically, it is nothing more than that Yao Yizhong was born in the Qiang people, and the officers and soldiers of the Right Route Army are almost all composed of Qiang people's children, and the places along the way are Qiang territory when crossing in a roundabout, and many people are worried that Yao Yizhong will 'never return' and cut off the king in the Qiang land.

Wei Shuo doesn't believe this, not to mention that Yao Yizhong is well aware of the general trend and will not go against the sky. Even if Yao Yizhong really wanted to take the opportunity to divide the Qiang land, Wei Shuo would not take it seriously, it would just take a few more years of effort.

The reason why these rumors appear is that some people are jealous of Yao Yizhong and have the opportunity to make meritorious contributions, holding the mentality that I can't get you and don't think about it, maliciously and slandering the opponent.

At the beginning, Gao Zhan, Wen Qiao and others were very angry and demanded that the rumor-mongers be severely punished, but only Yan Wang Weishuo behaved calmly, as if he had expected this.

In fact, it is not difficult to understand this situation, in the past, there were many enemies in Yan Kingdom, and the generals had the opportunity to go into battle to kill the enemy and make meritorious contributions. But now, seeing that the Yan Kingdom is about to dominate the world, in addition to Jiangdong, there are only two places with meritorious service opportunities left in Chenghan and the Western Regions, in order to have a good treatment when the great meritorious heroes are crowned in the future, there will naturally be people who are unwilling to give up any opportunity to make meritorious contributions.

In the face of the surging discussions from the outside world, Yao Yizhong, as a party concerned, was naturally shocked, he was afraid that King Yan would be punished after listening to the 'slander', so he had to go to Wei Shuo in person to show his loyalty.

As a result, what Yao Yizhong didn't expect was that King Yan not only did not suspect him, but also told him in person that he was the only one who was the commander of the right army, which moved Yao Yizhong, a hot-blooded Qiang man, to tears.

Until now, those words are still ringing in Yao Yizhong's ears, "General Yao, what kind of person are you, is it still unclear if you are a widow?" Ignore the gossip from the outside world, I believe you will not do anything unfaithful. The general just do it boldly, and I will wait for your good news in Luoyang City. ”

As a result, without saying a word, Yao Yizhong immediately issued a military order, saying that if he did not complete the roundabout strategy, he would repay Yan Wang Houen with death.

After Yao Yizhong made the military order, although those rumors did not disappear completely, at least they were not as violent as before. However, this also forced Yao Yizhong to a dead end, but he was full of confidence in this roundabout strategy. And Yao Yizhong believes that as long as he wins this battle, he will likely be among the famous generals, shoulder to shoulder with Beigong Chun and Liu Yao. (To be continued.) )