Chapter 934: Entry
(Thanks to the 774488 boss for the tip!) )
Chen Kefu held the command battle in his hand and pointed on the sand table. At this moment, the young emperor Zhizhu is in his hand, Chengzhu is in his chest, and he is holding a command stick to guide the country.
The war in Guanzhong has reached the critical time, and now the main force of Yu Wenhua and is in Changwu, Guanzhong is empty, such a good time, if you miss it, then Chen Kefu will definitely regret it in the future.
He didn't want to regret it, and he didn't want to miss such a great opportunity. Although the plan He Ruohuailiang said was a bit risky, how could there be no reason not to be risky in marching and fighting? However, Chen Kefu is not the kind of person who blindly cares about the head and tail, before every action, he will always calculate repeatedly, not winning, only losing.
Only after summing up everything before and after, and knowing the gains and losses, will he really make up his mind to enter Chapter 934.
It is not advisable to take Chang'an directly, although Chang'an only has 30,000 soldiers and horses, and he is sure that more than half of these 30,000 people must be some newcomers who have never been on the battlefield. However, Chang'an City has strong walls and has not experienced war for decades, so it is very likely to be besieged if it ventures alone into the city.
"Ladies and gentlemen, after thinking about it, I still feel that it is not advisable to go deep into Chang'an City alone."
As soon as the emperor's voice fell, the generals in the tent reacted differently. Chen Lei, Zhang Chuchen and other generals who were worried about the emperor's safety were naturally relieved, but He Ruohuailiang's uncle and nephew, who had just proposed to attack Chang'an, sighed a little, but Xiao Shilian nodded a little happily, and deliberately glanced at He Ruohuailiang with a provocative look.
"But!"
Chen Kefu was just a pause, but he continued, with a thousand strengths.
With a strong confidence in his eyes, Chen Kefu forcefully commanded the battle to the sand table with his right hand: "Chang'an, we won't fight for the time being, let's fight this!" ”
The generals all looked along the command battle, but saw that the emperor's command battle was on the Imjin Pass on the west bank of the Yellow River.
If Xiaoguan is the west gate of Guanzhong, then Tongguan is the east gate of Guanzhong. The Imjin Pass, which lives on the west bank of the Yellow River and is located on the north side of Tongguan, has been the east gate of Guanzhong since ancient times.
Not far from the side of the 934th chapter of Tongguan North, the Yellow River divides the east of the river and Guanzhong. On the west bank of the Yellow River is Imjin Pass, and on the east bank of the Yellow River is Pusaka Pass on the southeast corner of the river. In addition to the two Xiongguan passes separated by the two banks, there is also a Zhongjun City on the Shazhou in the Yellow River in the middle of the two passes.
The three cities of Imjin, Zhongyu and Pusaka are divided into Guanzhong and the gateway to the east of the river, and Pujin starts the river bridge to pass through the river, and places the city in the middle to guard the river bridge. The "Book of Words" says that the sand in the water is wet. The city was built on the sand in the middle of the river. On the Yellow River, in addition to the Zhongyun City in the Pujinguan River, there is also a river bridge between Luoyang and Heyang, and there is also a Zhongyun City in the Yellow River that is designed to guard the river bridge.
Now Imjin City is in the hands of the Yuwen clan, and even Zhongyun City is under the guard of Xu Jun. Although the river bridge connecting Hedong and Kanto has long since been closed, the bridge is still there. It's just that although Chen Jun has Pusaka Pass, he is helpless in the face of the one-man pass of Imjin Pass and Zhongjun Pass, unless he attacks it.
"Your Majesty, the Longshan camp is more than three hundred miles away from Imjin Pass. Moreover, there are five cities in front of Baishui, Chengcheng, Pucheng, Fengyi, and Chaoyi, but I am afraid that we have not yet reached the Imjin Pass, and we have already been surrounded by Xu troops from all sides. Chang Zhongxing couldn't help but change color slightly for the emperor's bold plan, and he was really surprised that the Ninety-Five Venerable was so willing to take risks.
Chen Kefu shook his head, but in his heart he was very satisfied with the performance of Chang Zhongxin and the other generals.
"I just talked to Li Chunfeng in the morning, and he speculates that today's windy and snowy weather will last for at least three days. With such heavy snowfall, it is difficult to lift the beacon fire, although the wind and snow weather makes the march inconvenient, but as long as you are well prepared, it is a good opportunity for a surprise army to break through. ”
At present, most of the soldiers and horses in the pass are concentrated in Changwu, and the rest are also in fortresses such as Chang'an and Tongguan. For example, Baishui, Chengcheng and other places, there is basically no regular army to guard, and most of the local wealthy families and wealthy merchants contribute money and grain together, and then gather young and strong people from all over the country to form a township regiment to guard the place. Although the number of these private soldiers will not be small, it is okay to deal with some homeless bandits and bandits, if you really want to rely on these private soldiers to deal with the regular army, it is a fantasy.
Once Chen's army advances according to the conventional method of warfare, then the biggest reaction of the cities along the road will be to set off beacons to transmit messages and close the city. Waiting for Tongguan or Chang'an and other places to send troops to come to the rescue, this is the greatest possibility.
However, in the current heavy snowfall, even if wolf smoke rises, it cannot be spread far in the dim snowy weather. Moreover, in the snowy weather, most of the ordinary people stayed at home instead of going out of the city. Even the village regiments in those places would not be able to stay away from the city in such bad weather.
"The snowy night marched, all the way around the cities, straight to Imjin. The chance of a surprise attack on Imjin is more than sixty percent. Chen Kefu said very confidently. His self-confidence also comes from Chen Jun's well-trained and Chen Jun's sophisticated equipment.
There are 20,000 soldiers and horses in the Longshan battalion, 5,000 are the Yulin Praetorian Guards, 5,000 are the female troops led by Zhang Chuchen, and the remaining 10,000 are the newly incorporated surrendered troops, of which Chang Zhongxing led the old 5,000. The other 5,000 were originally Chang Zhongxing's subordinates, but because they were all Xiliang cavalry, Chen Kefu also separated these 5,000 Xiliang cavalry and handed them over to Ma Ning.
The 20,000 horses, except for the weaker female soldiers, are actually veterans of the battlefield, and what is even more rare is that whether it is the Chen army or the newly surrendered soldiers, they are all soldiers with horses. Chang Zhongxing and Ma Ning's subordinates were all light cavalry, while Chen's army had always pursued high mobility, whether it was cavalry or infantry, so even if it was infantry, it was also cavalry infantry.
"Three hundred miles from the Longshan camp to Imjin Pass, our army has war horses. The elite soldiers of Wei Wushu of Pang Juan during the Warring States Period in history, the armor of the three genera, the crossbow of the twelve stones, the fifty arrows of the bear, the crown shaft with the sword, the grain of the three days, and the middle of the day and the hundred miles. These Wei troops are fully armed and can travel 100 miles a day, and when converted into today's size, the Wei army can walk 60 miles in the afternoon, and 100 miles a day. ”
Xiao Shilian whispered: "Your Majesty, marching on a snowy day, and avoiding the cities along the road, will definitely slow down the speed of the army. What's more, from Yongsan to Imjin, although it is along Luoshui, there are many mountains and steep roads, and it is difficult to travel 100 miles a day. ”
Chen Kefu didn't say much when he heard this, he turned to Chen Lei and said, "Chen Lei, you tell you about the standard marching speed of my Great Chen Army!" ”
Chen Lei took a step forward and said calmly: "Da Chen's standard marching speed, the Chen Dynasty marched within the provincial capitals, and the messenger cavalry traveled along the post station, traveling four hundred miles a day. The standard march of cavalry is 180 miles a day, and the march of an attack formation in wartime is 120 miles a day. The standard day march of mounted infantry is 120 miles, and the speed of wartime is 80 miles a day. If it is a rapid march, the speed can be increased by 30% in one day and night. ”
The so-called standard march and wartime march refer to marching at full speed and marching in an offensive formation. And if it is marching on the battlefield, in that kind of situation of fighting and walking, the cavalry of Chen's army can maintain fifty miles a day, and the infantry can maintain twenty miles a day.
Chen Lei's bland words shocked He Ruohuailiang, Xiao Shilian and others, even Chang Zhongxing and Ma Ning couldn't believe it.
The cavalry ran 180 miles a day, and the infantry ran 120 miles a day, which was absolutely shocking. According to what they knew, whether it was Xu Jun or Qin Jun, it was basically only six to seven percent of Chen Jun's speed at most.
He Ruohuailiang's eyes widened, and he looked at Chen Lei with some disbelief: "Doesn't that mean that from here to Imjin, it will only take one day and night at the earliest?" ”
"If it's a light cavalry, you can kill it as early as tomorrow's third watch. If the infantry had been brought with them, the march would have arrived at noon to-morrow. ”
Chen Kefu pointed to Imjin Pass with his hand and said loudly: "Everyone, from Longshan to Imjin Pass, there are six cities along the way. However, the good news is that in these six cities, except for Feng Yicheng, who has Yu Wenhua and the eagle claw Ju Guogong, and Guanglu doctor Pei Qiantong led 3,000 government soldiers to defend them, the rest are guarded by some private soldiers of the township regiment. At present, the weather is heavy and snowy, and the beacon fire is difficult to lift, and the cities are not connected with each other. We just took the opportunity to bypass Zhucheng and go straight to Feng Yi. Pei Qiantong would never have thought that someone would suddenly kill him at his feet. As long as Feng Yi is taken, then the matter is half the battle. Imjin Pass is now guarded by Yu Wenhua and the first Yu Wenzhi and the town, Yu Wenzhi and is a real gentleman, although there are 8,000 elite soldiers under its command stationed in Imjin and Zhongjun City, but they are all dedicated to guarding Pusaka, most of the soldiers and horses are in the middle of the river, we will kill from the back soldiers, and take the Imjin City in one fell swoop, then the Xu army of Zhongyun City will be trapped in the center of the Yellow River, and the east and west banks will be our soldiers and horses, and they have no way to escape. ”
Chang Zhongxing couldn't help but get excited when he heard this bold plan: "Once we take Imjin, then we can immediately open up the convenient passage between Guanzhong and Hedong." Not only did there be a way to advance and retreat, but also immediately received 5,000 soldiers and horses from Pusaka City to reinforce them, and even put the Chen army outside Tongguan into the pass. ”
"That's right, if you take the Imjin Pass, the eastern gateway of the pass will be completely opened. Tongguan will become an isolated city, and we may easily bypass Tongguan from the north side, or even surround Tongguan. ”
Although Tongguan has a husband as a pass, it is not open in the name of ten thousand people. But if Chen Jun can go around Tongguan, the role of Tongguan will be completely lost. At that time, the Chen army only needs a soldier and horse to besiege the Tongguan defenders, and if the Tongguan defenders go out of the pass, the invincible Chen army in the field can easily take Tongguan. If the defenders of Tongguan do not fight, then the Chen army can easily divide their troops and take Chang'an directly!
"Your Majesty, send troops!" Ma Ning, the commander of the Xiliang cavalry, said loudly with blood on his face, his blood boiling. "The minister is willing to lead the Xiliang Iron Cavalry as the vanguard and take Imjin City for His Majesty in one fell swoop!" (To be continued!!
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