Wuguan Garrison ......

"Zhang He, the good general of the real world!"

As Yang Ling slowly recounted a qiē, Wang Xu smiled with relief, and couldn't help but admire, and the entourage of civil and military forces was even more impressed.

Xu Shu stroked Xu Zan and said: "General Zhang's battle is treacherous, strange, and fast, and he really lives up to the name of Hebei's famous general, and the lord wins him and wins 100,000 troops." ”

"Hahaha......" Wang Xu was even more happy, and laughed more than once: "Jun Yi made meritorious contributions in the first battle, paved the way for the conquest of Si Li, shocked the enemy, and should remember the first merit!" ”

All the civil and military officers gathered together, all smiling at the moment, and there was no objection to this.

Wang Xu's eyes swept over everyone, but he didn't say more, and instead asked Liu Pan and Yang Ling: "What about later?" Zhang He attacked Duling in the early morning of the third day, and did Cao's army counterattack after that? Why didn't the detailed battle report arrive at Wuguan until this morning? ”

"Back to my lord!" Liu Pan answered with a smile: "After General Zhang captured Duling on the morning of the third day, he sent someone to report the news to General Gao Shun, and at the same time sent a general message to Wuguan, at that time, the last general and Yang Ling, but they were stunned for a long time, and they wanted to send someone to convey the lord immediately, but then they received a letter from General Gao, so we don't inform the lord for the time being, so we temporarily suppressed it." ”

"Oh?" Wang Xuqi said: "Why is Gao Shun like this? ”

Liu Pan smiled: "General Gao said that although Du Ling was captured, it is not certain whether it can be kept, if it is reported to the lord, it will inevitably make the lord send someone to respond in a hurry, at that time, if Du Ling is lost again, the battle situation is in chaos, and the reinforcements sent will inevitably be plotted by the Cao army." ”

"Hmmm! General Gao is right. Fa Zheng nodded immediately and said in a deep voice: "If the situation is unstable, the lord will send reinforcements." You may be completely confused. Hooded head, his head was taken advantage of by the enemy. ”

Wang Xu pondered for a moment. Nodding his head, he said, "Then how did the shape develop later?" ”

Liu Pan said: "After General Gao learned that Lantian and Duling were all attacked, he sent people to send a message to our Wuguan on the one hand, and continued to bite Cao Zhen's soldiers and horses on the other. Cao Zhen learned that Lantian and Duling had been lost one after another, and he did not dare to stay outside for a long time, so he accelerated his speed and returned, and withdrew to Chang'an on the fourth day. General Gao led 2,000 trapped camps and 5,000 soldiers to quickly enter Duling. ”

In this way, there were more than 10,000 people stationed in Duling. Lantian and Shangluo were each garrisoned by 5,000 people, and the generals of each department closed the city gates and sent sentry horses to patrol and investigate outside the city, and strictly guarded against them, so that the situation could be stabilized. ”

"Before Gao Shun arrived at Duling, Zhang He guarded Duling for a day, and there was no reaction from Chang'an?" Wang Xu continued to ask.

"Yes!" Liu Pan nodded: "General Zhang He captured Duling on the morning of the third day, Duling is only more than sixty miles away from Chang'an, Zhong Xuan got the news in less than half an hour, and then hurriedly dispatched 10,000 horse infantry. It was intended to take advantage of General Zhang's unstable foothold and quickly counterattack. Arrive in the early afternoon. ”

"The result?" Wang Xu's eyes widened.

Liu Pan smiled and said reverently: "General Zhang He led five hundred cavalry out of the city to confront each other and control the city, while the head of the city pressed the formation with crossbowmen, forcing the enemy army to unable to launch a siege battle!" Cao Jun had no choice but to fight against him, but two generals in succession were all killed by General Zhang, and morale was low. ”

Subsequently, Cao Jun intended to launch a strong attack, and ordered the soldiers to set up hook ladders, and General Zhang He ordered all the soldiers at the head of the city, including crossbowmen, to pick up bows and arrows and throw them into the distance, while he led 500 horsemen under the city to charge back and forth in front of the city wall, so that the enemy infantry could not set up hooks and ladders at all. The enemy, accompanied by 1,500 cavalry, quickly dispatched to kill Zhang He's troops, intending to contain him and thus ascend the city from the western wall. ”

Feng Xi led 500 cavalry out of the north gate, went around to the west gate, and once again attacked the enemy's troops who had set up hooks and ladders, so that the opponent was never able to effectively carry out siege warfare. Subsequently, a large number of foot soldiers in the rear of Cao's army formed a dense array, advancing steadily, intending to suppress the cavalry under the city, but they were frantically shot by the soldiers in the city, and suffered heavy losses. ”

"Because it has no large-scale siege equipment, and there are no archers to shoot, Cao's 1,000 crossbowmen shoot from the bottom to the top, unable to effectively suppress our city, which caused such a result, General Zhang grasped the weakness of Cao's army everywhere, flexible and adaptable, and finally blocked Cao's army, on the eve of night, Cao's army could not do anything, worried that it would be raided by General Zhang at night, and did not dare to camp outside the city, so as to retreat."

"The next morning, Cao Zhen's 20,000 soldiers arrived, but because General Gao Shun always followed him, he was worried that he would be attacked on both sides, and he did not dare to attack the city, so he retreated directly to Chang'an, and General Gao Shun led the trap camp and 5,000 soldiers to enter Duling."

"In the next two days, Chang'an never sent troops out, according to the spies' report, it continued to gather troops and materials, and it is reported that it also secretly dispatched Feng Yi from the north and the town guards from the two counties of the right Fufeng in the west to Chang'an, but it should not have arrived in a short time."

"On the sixth day and night, that is, last night, Chang'an City suddenly began to carry heavy siege equipment and sent it to the main army camp in the south of Chang'an City.

Speaking of this, Liu Pan paused for a moment, smiled slightly and said: "I didn't think about it, the last general and Yang Ling had just finished reading the battle report, and they were about to send someone, when they received news that the lord had arrived with the main army, so they simply went out of the city to greet them." ”

After hearing this, Wang Xu felt a little worried in his heart, if Zhong Xuan finished mobilizing and attacked with a large number of siege equipment, it would not be so easy for Du Ling's 10,000 people to defend it, and after thinking for a moment, he already said quickly: "Zhang Liao! ”

"The last general!" Zhang Liao responded to the call.

"I order you to immediately lead the 30,000 people of the White Tiger Legion and the 2,000 Xiaoyaojin dead soldiers of your headquarters to Duling without delay."

"No!"

Wang Xu looked at Zhang Liao, who was slightly excited, his tone softened slightly, and said jokingly: "Wenyuan! Gao Shun and Zhang Heer have already done miraculous feats, you are going to Duling, if you are not happy, you have to beware of them complaining that you are dragging your feet! ”

Zhang Liao is still calm, but his words reveal a strong self-confidence: "Don't worry, the lord wants to capture the city, it took two days and two nights, and his subordinates will travel all the way unimpeded, if they can't arrive before nightfall tomorrow, they will apologize for their crimes!" ”

"Eh, it doesn't have to be like this!" Wang Xu waved his hand and said with a smile: "Although Cao Jun has not completely completed the deployment now, and this trip is not dangerous, it is still necessary to be careful on the road and send more sentry cavalry to investigate, just in case." ”

"The last general understands!" Zhang Liao calmly responded to the order, and then arched his hand at Wang Xu, didn't say a word, turned around and left.

Wang Xu turned his head and looked at Liu Pan and Yang Ling again. "Two, what is the situation in Shang County now?"

"It's empty!" Yang Ling replied: "That Xiahoude seems to have received the message, on the afternoon of the day when General Zhang He captured Duling, he abandoned the city with 5,000 soldiers and fled, but he did not dare to flee to Chang'an, probably for fear of being attacked along the way, so he went to the northeast and fled to the county seat of Lushi in Hongnong County. ”

"Hongnon?" The corners of Wang Xu's mouth drew an arc: "How is Hongnong Taishou Xu Rong moving now?" ”

"He has personally led his subordinates to the Lu clan to mobilize materials to prepare for war!" Liu Pan said cautiously.

"How many parts does Xu Rong have?" Wang Xu asked aloud.

Cao Cao's army system is different from Jingzhou, they are still the kind of tribal system of the Han Dynasty, except for a large number of elite central armies personally controlled by Cao Cao, each general has its own large number of troops, and if these trophies are not ordered by their own direct generals, no one can move them.

Especially since the war at the end of the Han Dynasty, the restrictions on the number of tribes have been more relaxed, as a county guard, as long as Xu Rong completes the governance tasks and requirements, the taxes and materials that should be paid have been paid, and the rest of the money and materials can be used to form the tribes.

This is the ideological limitation of the development of the times, and the princes of all parties will not think that this is bad, because they think that it will be more powerful.

Today, only Wang Xu has resolutely walked in the direction of centralization from the beginning of the army, and has completed it step by step, until a new system has been formed.

It may seem that the strength is insufficient, but in fact, it reduces a lot of waste of human and material resources.

It can also avoid the self-respect of the armed forces under his command, strengthen the professionalism of the army, and improve the overall combat effectiveness of the army.

The most important thing is that the burden on the people is minimized, and the core combat power can be continuously provided, the foundation can be accumulated, and the gap with the north can be quickly shortened.

Historically, it is because of that kind of tribal system, the people of the guide zhì are fighting less and less, Wei, Shu, Wu three kingdoms, the imperial court to conscript, the local Taishou, generals also to conscript the trilogy, but in fact, when there is no fighting, a large number of soldiers are idle, no one to produce, no one to give birth, and finally to the unification of the Jin Dynasty, after decades of war, the population of Shu is not more than one million, how terrible it is.

But in fact, when it comes to a real fight, those scattered troops hardly play a big role, and in the end it depends on the decisive battle of the main force.

In short, the main decisive battle was divided into winners and losers, and it was almost falling apart, looking at the wind and falling, dying and dying again.

Wang Xu is from later generations, of course, he knows the drawbacks, not only is it easy to get out of control, but more importantly, if his main force is really wiped out and collapsed, then the scattered troops in various places can really withstand it? Even if there are many loyal people in the civil and military forces, they would rather die than surrender, but they can't withstand the main force of others, and if they don't surrender, they won't die!

So, what are those useless compilations for? It is better to let them give birth and have children later, so as to ensure benign development, and make the main force can be replenished at any time after the loss.

At this moment, with Wang Xu's inquiry, Liu Pan thought for a while before he said with great certainty: "The spy has a subordinate who has informed the last general that there are nearly 20,000 troops under Xu Rong's command, and only 5,000 people are left to garrison the county capital Hongnong, and the rest have rushed to the Lu clan three and a half days ago. ”

"In addition, he also summoned some other small troops, the specific number is unknown, the current Henan Yin Dongzhao also led 10,000 troops from Luoyang to help, plus Xiahoude's 5,000 people, conservatively speculated, there should be nearly 40,000 people." (To be continued......)