Chapter 1021: A New Defense System
Yanghu did not execute He Jun, not that Yanghu did not have such authority, on the contrary, the imperial court granted Yanghu the power to hold the festival, whether in peacetime or wartime, he has the qualification to kill officials below 2,000 stones, He Jun is a general of the five grades, more than 600 stones, Yanghu does not need to go to the court at all, just according to the crime he commits can be directly executed. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
It's easy to kill a He Jun, but this is not Yanghu's original intention, if it's just to vent his anger or to avenge Zhou Zhi, Yanghu can kill him, but the first thing Yanghu has to consider is to seek justice for Zhou Zhi, and to avenge Zhou Zhi's grievances, so Yanghu directly handed over He Jun and all the human and physical evidence to the Tingwei Mansion of the Luoyang Imperial Court, and the court will deal with this matter.
The culprit who killed Zhou Zhi was Sima Jun, but now Sima Jun has become a prisoner of the Shu people, even if he wants to hold him responsible, it is beyond the reach of the whip, not to mention that the deceased is gone, even if Yanghu kills He Jun, it is impossible to resurrect Zhou Zhi, what he can do now is only to restore Zhou Zhi's reputation, I believe that the imperial court has a division in front of conclusive evidence, and can return Zhou Zhi to justice.
For Yanghu, this incident is just a small episode of his return to Jizhou, this time he re-assumed the position of the governor of the rebellion, in charge of the military and political affairs of Jizhou, in front of Yanghu, is like a mountain.
The situation in Jizhou, far more severe and bad than Yanghu imagined, continuous defeats, so that the Jin army suffered considerable losses, although some troops were replenished, but far from catching up with the consumption of more people and horses, the battle of Anguo, the battle of Pingyang, the battle of Shangdang, the battle of Yangjiban, in these four battles, the Jin army suffered heavy losses, a total of 150,000 troops, you know, when the Jin army launched a comprehensive attack on the Shu army, it was claimed to have 300,000 men and horses, in less than a year, the Jin army suffered half of the casualties, The magnitude of the losses is staggering.
The losses of the generals were more heavy than the troops, the metropolitan governor Sima Jun became a prisoner of war of the Shu State, the deputy governor Wenyang was killed, and the generals Chen Yuan, Qi Hong, Xie Xian, Wu Mao, Duan Guang, etc. were all killed.
What's worse is the morale of the Jin army, the repeated defeats have made the Jin army slump, morale is low, the entire Jin army camp is shrouded in a gloomy cloud.
After Yanghu arrived, he ran between Anping, Zhaoguo, and Julu counties for several days, which are the northernmost counties currently controlled by the Jin army, and are the forward positions of the Shu army.
Through the inspection, Yanghu was extremely worried about the current situation of the Jin army's defense on the front line, and now the Jin army is weak and has lost the ability to carry out strategic offensives.
Now the Jin army is no longer able to build a new offensive system, even if it is a defensive system, it is now full of holes, it is difficult to continue, the current Jin army of 170,000 troops, relatively evenly distributed in the nine counties of Jizhou, four counties in the north: Anping, Julu, Zhao, Leling, five counties in the south: Wei County, Guangping, Qinghe, Pingyuan, Yang'an, the average garrison strength of each county is less than 20,000 people.
This kind of large and comprehensive defense pattern has a fatal flaw, that is, it is easy to be broken by the enemy, and Liu Yin is good at concentrating superior forces to break this kind of battle, if Jizhou has maintained this defensive pattern, within half a year, the land of Jizhou will all fall into the hands of Liu Yin.
Yanghu keenly discovered these cruxes, so what he needed to do was to immediately change the defense system of the entire Jizhou, if he really waited for the Shu army to attack, it would be too late.
In Yanghu's plan, all the four counties in the north that were connected with Shu were abandoned, and all the troops were withdrawn to the south and deployed around Yecheng.
In view of the characteristics of the Shu army's possession of firearms and strong cavalry combat ability, Yanghu decided to use the method of deep trenches and high bases to deal with it, in short, it was necessary to dig deep trenches within the range of 100 miles around Yecheng, build soil as a base, and build a criss-cross trench network.
The role of the deep trench is to inhibit the activity ability of the cavalry of the Shu army, the criss-crossing trenches can make the cavalry useless, and the attack on the infantry can also play a role in interception, even if the Shu army can break through one or two trenches, but in the face of hundreds of miles of trenches, they want to attack the city of Yecheng, it is simply a test to climb to the sky.
Yanghu has seen the power of the Shu army's firearms, and any city, in front of them, is as fragile as a piece of paper, so the key to defending Yecheng is to never let the Shu army easily attack the city of Yecheng.
The trench is undoubtedly the most effective means, and it is useless to use firearms to deal with the trenches. At the same time, the trench is also the best weapon to deal with the cavalry, now the cavalry of Shu surpasses the cavalry of the Jin State, it is an indisputable fact, in the repeated cavalry battles, the cavalry of the Jin State is the advantage of the loss, and there is no ability to resist.
The history of the Jin cavalry to conquer the world is gone forever, with the Jin cavalry being suppressed by the Shu cavalry as a whole, the biggest advantage of the Jin army has been completely lost, and the Jin cavalry, which was known as the first cavalry in the world, is no longer difficult to bear this glory.
The decline of the strength of the Jin army has made subtle changes in the situation in the world, from an aggressive strategic offensive to a low-key and restrained strategic defense, and the Jin army must cross this psychological hurdle.
Yanghu took the initiative to retreat this time, just to let all the soldiers of the Jin army understand a truth, now the situation in the world is no longer the era of the Jin State to take and take away, the role of the strong they have been playing is now changed hands, the first thing the Jin army needs to do is the entire strategic defense, hold all the places that can still be held at present, and wait until the situation in the world changes again in the future, it will be the time for them to turn to the strategic offensive again, before that, whether you accept it or not, the Jin State is already on the weak side. (To be continued.) )