Chapter 170 Changes

In August, autumn is crisp. ww

Under the clear sky, marching among the mountains and fields was a huge army that stretched for several miles.

Wang Yu's team was a little larger than he had expected at first, with more than 20,000 people. Among them, there were about 8,000 soldiers, and the rest were the families of the army, as well as some of the people who admired Wang Yu and were willing to migrate with him.

The equipment and weapons of 8,000 soldiers, plus the baggage of 20,000 people, as well as the money looted from several princes, and finally the books sent by Dong Zhuo.

Even counting from the Eastern Han Dynasty, the Han Dynasty has been founded for nearly 200 years, plus the savings left over from the Western Han Dynasty, there is a considerable number of books in the Tianlu Pavilion.

In this era, papermaking has just been invented, paper has not been fully popularized, most of the books are written on bamboo slips, and there is no shortage of classics engraved with knives in the collection.

Seeing this, Wang Yu deeply understood why the ancients spared words like gold when they wrote books. Carving bamboo slips is manual work, and if the person who writes the book talks too much nonsense, it is easy to exhaust himself to death.

Due to the large number of troops and the large number of non-combatants, the speed of advance was not fast, and in order to maintain the morale of the army, Wang Yu set out early in the morning every day and camped in the afternoon to rest, which made the advance even more slow.

The most convenient and fast way to get from Luoyang to Mount Tai is along the Yellow River, which is flanked on both sides by plains, and can also rely on water transport to transport baggage.

However, if you choose this route, a large part of the journey is in Donggun. Today's Dongjun is in chaos, the Montenegrin army has fully crossed the Yellow River defense line and is besieging Puyang, Liu Dai left Wang Qiu to hold on, and he ran to Dong'a to mobilize reinforcements. Cao Cao was afraid that Wang Yu would cause other changes after he returned to Yanzhou, so he was also impatient to follow the Montenegrin army and chase him down.

In short, it was a mess there, and it was not easy to think that Mrs. Ping Ping passed by.

But the reason why Wang Yu gave up that route was not because of fear of difficulties, but because of Liu Dai's resolute attitude. Liu Dai would rather order the counties along the way to provide Wang Yu with supplies free of charge, rather than let Wang Yu go around Dongjun.

The Black Mountain thieves have a strong momentum and a lot of troops, but they are yellow turbans after all, and they have no ability to attack fortifications, as long as the major families are determined to defend to the death, whether it is the county town or the dock forts of each family, there will not be much danger. When the reinforcements gathered, the Black Mountain thieves saw that the situation was not good, and they disappeared.

But if Wang Yu is involved, it will be difficult to say.

He has a secret method of attacking the city, and he can also drive the Yellow Turban Warriors, and he has a history of using the power of the Yellow Turban to attack the Shijiawu Fort, so let him come to Dongjun for a trip, and it will really be out of control.

Cheng Yu is not Liu Dai's subordinate, and the reason why he was willing to make an envoy for Liu Dai that day was because he was also worried that Wang Yu would appear in Dongjun, and to a certain extent, he represented the attitude of all walks of life in Yanzhou.

Wang Yu didn't have the intention of going to Dongjun to stir up, so he agreed to push the boat down. The route he chose was to walk along the river to Chenliu, and then along the Jishui River to the east, the economic Yin County, Shanyang County, Rencheng State, Lu State, across Yanzhou, and finally into the territory of Mount Tai.

There are too many non-combatants in his team to prioritize speed alone, safety is his primary concern.

Now it has been nearly 20 days since he left Luoyang, but the team has just left Chenliu and entered the territory of Jiyin County, which is the first time Wang Yu has participated in the long-distance march of the brigade, and it is also quite emotional.

"The iron wall is in the text, and it really deserves its name."

Looking at the long queue, Zhang Miao suddenly opened his mouth and praised: "I heard that he was a stroke in Mount Tai earlier, but he was just a long man. ”

"Why did my uncle suddenly sigh like this?" Wang Yu looked at the queue, and then at Zhang Miao, wondering if the latter was looking for something to say.

Nominally, Zhang Miao came to see him off, but Wang Yu could see that the other party should have something to say, and the content was difficult to guess, but Zhang Miao didn't speak for a long time, but Wang Yu didn't take the initiative to mention it.

"The so-called: with a small Ming big, see a leaf falling and know the twilight of the year, see the ice in the bottle and know the cold of the world."

Zhang Miao quoted a classic sentence and said with emotion: "Pengju, you have vehicles, horses, strong foot soldiers, and old and weak women and children in your team. If it is a decent person, it should be divided into categories, the soldiers in front, the old and weak in the middle, and the vehicles behind, although they can not interfere, but the speed of the march is still not much faster......"

He pointed to the queue and said eloquently: "But Pengju's team is completely different, although it is also a variety of people, vehicles and horses are mixed, but they are in order, everyone goes their own way, although there are many baggage, but a certain number of chariots and horses are deliberately vacated for the slow walking old and weak to sit and rest, and the soldiers carry their own weapons and armor, and rotate on time......"

Finally, he concluded: "At this rate, it will take another half a month to enter the territory of Mount Tai. It only took more than a month to complete such a big move, and it would be difficult for the dispatcher to be a famous general. ”

He didn't say it, Wang Yu didn't pay attention to it, listening to his pointing, Wang Yu could see that this was indeed the case.

The art of war seems to be very unfathomable, but in fact, many of the contents are commonplace in later generations.

For example, Zhang Miao's question about marching.

The old and weak have poor physical strength, not only walking slowly, but also endurance; Vehicles have high requirements for the road and occupy a lot of animal power; When the army is on the march, the soldiers must also maintain their physical strength, and cannot blindly force their way forward, so as not to disconnect the ranks or encounter enemy attacks.

How to coordinate the various parts of the team to achieve the optimal ratio is a secret in the art of war, but to put it bluntly, it is nothing more than the specific application of the science of coordination.

Of course, it is one thing for this kind of knowledge to be able to see the doorway, and it is another thing to be able to really apply it freely, so Zhang Miao sighed.

"Wen Ze is indeed extremely talented in this regard." Wang Yu nodded, and sighed secretly in his heart: It's been a long time, this is quite fast, no wonder you can't see Yu Ban's shadow along the way, it turns out that he has been very busy.

Think about it, it is written in the novel that when Liu Bei fled from Xinye, he also helped the old and the young, but he couldn't walk ten miles a day, and he was caught up by Cao Cao before he walked far, which led to Zhao Yun's earth-shattering battle in Changbanpo.

"Uncle has already sent it far away, if you have something to tell your little nephew, how about it?" Zhang Miao has a good relationship with Wang Kuang, so Wang Yu can only treat him as a junior, which makes him a little restrained.

"But I can't hide it from Pengju......"

Zhang Miao laughed dryly, his expression turned solemn, and said: "I just want to remind Pengju that your move to abandon Luoyang and take Qingzhou is a wonderful move, and at the same time, the risk is not small." Qingzhou, it's not so easy to calm down, if you're not careful, you'll fall into the quagmire and miss the opportunity. ”

"Opportunity?"

"Hmm." Zhang Miao nodded: "You should have seen that Cao Mengde is taking advantage of the situation to enter the East County, the East County is the essence of Yanzhou, Cao Mengde is also a hero, Zhiluo is not under Pengju, once he succeeds, I am afraid that the dragon will enter the sea, the tiger will enter the mountains and forests, Pengju is really not to worry." ”

Wang Yu raised his eyebrows and asked, "According to my uncle's opinion, do you want Yu to take advantage of the situation to attack Dongjun?" ”

"Not really."

Zhang Miao shook his head and said meaningfully: "Pengju, you are now the target of the public, if you act rashly, it is easy to attract the heroes to attack it, a certain meaning, you had better not invest too much energy in Qingzhou, wait for a period of time, the Central Plains will change, everyone's attention is not on you, it is the time to use force." ”

Wang Yuyu's eyebrows furrowed slightly, and he groaned: "By then, isn't Cao Mengde also full-fledged?" Does it really hurt to trade-off? ”

The reason why he gave up Luoyang and attacked Qingzhou at the height of his military strength was because he saw through the current situation. If he is reckless in Luoyang, he will only leave others with a chance to develop and grow.

After he left Luoyang, news soon came from Nanyang, and Sun Jian, after expanding his army, began to evacuate Yuzhou and move towards Nanyang. Jingzhou did not show weakness, concentrated tens of thousands of soldiers and horses, Chen soldiers Xiangyang, and put on a posture of fighting to the death.

In Jizhou, Yuan Shao and Han Fu praised Liu Yu's plan to call the emperor somehow, leaked out, Gongsun Zan was furious when he heard the news, and sent several envoys to Yecheng to inquire in succession, the wording was extremely strong, and at the same time tens of thousands of troops, Chen Bingyou, Ji two weeks junction, ready to go.

Han Fu was greatly frightened, and finally agreed to the request of the famous men in Jizhou, and invited Yuan Shao to enter Jizhou to resist Gongsun Zan together.

This history is different from what Wang Yu knows, it is much more complicated and reasonable than the passage written in the book.

Obviously, Yuan Shaoxian took advantage of Han Fu's greed and pulled him to praise Liu Yu as emperor in order to win the merit of being a dragon. Then he secretly released the news, causing Gongsun Zan to go crazy.

Gongsun Chan can't be fooled, his relationship with Liu Yu is not ordinarily bad, if the latter is really the emperor and is widely recognized, then does he still have a mix?

As a result, Yuan Shao was able to enter Jizhou, and with the echo of the famous men in Jizhou, it was not far from his power to rise.

Of course, the information Wang Yu got would not be so detailed, and a lot of the content was analyzed by him.

Right now, it's not the best time to attack each other, and it's the king to take advantage of this opportunity to expand your strength as much as possible. Zhang Miao was obviously hinting to him to ignore Qingzhou, which was already of little value, and to join forces to plot against Yanzhou, the richest.

"How can it be that easy?"

Zhang Miao sneered: "Although Dongjun is rich, but the wealth is in the hands of the family, after Cao Mengde's fiasco, he is already forced internally and externally, and if he wants to recover in a short time, he can only make up his mind from the family." A certain still has a little popularity in Dongjun, as long as he has a little Dong Zhuo, a certain will unite everyone to attack, forming an anti-Cao public opinion, if there is Pengju's military strength to cooperate, Cao Mengde even if he has the ability to reach the sky, how can he have the power to return to the sky? ”

He said earnestly: "Capture and kill Cao Mengde, wouldn't it be good for you and me to go out after Liu Gongshan and Yanzhou are all taken?" Staring at the dilapidated Qingzhou, you will only lose a big one because of a small one. ”

"What Uncle means, Yu has already understood, and let Yu think about it." Zhang Miao's proposal was very tempting, and although Wang Yu had already made a decision, he was still a little excited.

For himself, Cao Cao is undoubtedly the biggest threat, and it would be good if he could get rid of this person first, but this matter is very important, and he can't help but think carefully before making a decision.

Zhang Miao didn't urge, and said: "A few days ago, I have sent an envoy to Mount Tai to talk about this matter with Gongjie, and when you return to Mount Tai, the father and son will discuss it well." (To be continued.)