Chapter 772: The Quadripartite Alliance
Zeng Guofan, who was a half-saint, was not good at military strategy, but his overall view was extraordinary, and he adopted the combat strategy of "pruning branches and leaves first if he wants to pull out the roots" for Tianjing City, which had an innate strategic advantage, and gradually encroached on the strategic points outside Tianjing City, forming an encirclement of "centripetal attack".
In history, he ordered Zuo Zongtang to lead the Hunan army, from southern Anhui to Zhejiang, and after taking Hangzhou, the troops pointed to Tianjing; Li Hongzhang led the Huai army, from Shanghai to Suzhou and Changzhou, and the soldiers also pointed to Tianjing; Zeng Guoquan led the water division, descended from Anqing, and became the direct main force attacking Tianjing.
went hand in hand, giving Hong Xiuquan great pressure.
In the case of Tianjing City, the Heavenly King Hong Xiuquan had to count the edicts a day, asking all the peripheral generals to return to help, forming a pattern of thirteen kings led by Li Xiucheng rushing to aid Tianjing.
This is the last military return of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, after the Taiping Army's extremely fierce breakthrough was blocked by the Hunan Army's extremely tenacious block, Tianjing City was isolated and helpless, in fact, it has become a lonely city.
It was only a matter of time before it was shattered.
In this world, however, the situation is different. Because the various forces originally came in an extremely prosperous posture, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom in its heyday was extremely combative, and the scale was also eye-catching, and it belonged to the second-class forces second only to the three major empires.
It's a pity that their opponent is not Xianfeng, and the heyday of the Qing Empire, under the leadership of Kangxi, still has an overwhelming advantage over it.
At this time, in the midst of constant ups and downs, the situation of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom is no longer optimistic. Zeng Guofan is not Qi Shan, and the basic principle of tactics is not to seek merit but to seek no fault, and to use the advantages of the empire to constantly consume under steady control - this tactic is obviously not very smart, but it is precisely because it does not seek quick success, and there are no major flaws in the whole process.
On the other hand, the rapid extermination of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was obviously not conducive to the tacit understanding of the "mutual protection of the southeast"; Zeng Guofan also had to consider the return of the first general of the Heavenly Kingdom, Wing King Shi Dakai, although the latter's historical level was only A+, but almost all the famous generals in the later period of the Heavenly Kingdom were from his command, and in terms of strategic layout ability, it was obviously above himself who was only a half-saint.
Like the original pattern of Suzhou, the so-called siege of Tianjing is still only a strategic stalemate at this time.
The timing of Zhao Gao's arrival was not good, the huge external pressure temporarily suppressed the contradictions within the Heavenly Kingdom, and the Tianjing City Gao Chishen, who had not gone through the "Tianjing Incident", had high morale among the soldiers, and it was by no means easy to capture.
This is true even with the transcendent wisdom represented by space. The combat effectiveness of historical epics is indeed strong, but the number of explorers under their command who lack foundation can never be compared with the plot forces, once the consumption is too large to keep up with the supply, it is easy to form a collapse situation.
Zhao Gao has used the Explorer, although the scale cannot be compared with this, but in essence, there is no difference. Any kind of thing has advantages and shortcomings, and if it has something, it must have its shortcomings. The explorer's ability to build snowballs is indeed strong, and it is like a bamboo to fight a tailwind battle, but once it enters a disadvantage or even just the attrition of the stalemate stage, people's selfish nature immediately makes all advantages come to naught, leaving a place of chicken feathers and dogs.
In contrast, the power of the top explorers is a little more reliable.
Zhao Gao did not hesitate to take out the S-level strategic prop that the pious and compassionate people had traded at the beginning, the Jesus Holy Table.
This seemingly ordinary table can ignore the constraints of the rules of time and space to temporarily gather the will of the thirteen people who are circled, with the positioning of this time and space anchor, with the ability of these senior arbiters, it is just a flash to come through the rules.
"Senior brother, it's been a long time!" The first one to appear is still the Great Dao Seeker, the Confucian descendant of the Yan family, the inheritance of Master Yan. However, his greeting was only halfway through before the smile was fixed on his face, because the incarnation of the extraordinary wisdom of the Pangu space, who was standing on the other side of Zhao Gao, also looked at him.
Although the two have never met, they are familiar in terms of rules and cannot be more familiar. One of them controls the Pangu space in the way of the Shenzhou Chixian Committee, and the other is not only the will of the space itself, but also has a Pangu Alliance under his command, which is faintly involved in the every move of explorers of all levels.
In the common interest, it is certainly not right to say that it is an enemy, but it is not at all possible to say that it is a partner. Although in terms of strength, the Great Dao Seeker is obviously weaker than the Extraordinary Wisdom, just like the Ark Space finally needs to find Zhao Gao to break through, Pangu's own potential after reaching the limit is not stronger than that of Master Yan.
Next is the Escape Real Man, which is also in the same situation......
The awkward atmosphere continued to spread, because except for Honghua, almost all the arbiters responded to Zhao Gao's call for the first time, and then met the stranger they were most familiar with in this place.
After secretly slandering Zhao Gao for being despicable and shameless, the forces of these two sides stood on Zhao Gao's left and right respectively, and they were silent and opposite each other.
No one is a fool, Zhao Gao brought in the arbitrators who were originally excluded at this time, obviously to balance the overly powerful transcendent wisdom, although it seems that the risk has increased greatly, but there are more chaotic instability factors.
Opportunity is often born out of chaos.
No one is more familiar with the logic of extraordinary wisdom than Zhao Gao, don't look at the moment it seems that all of them are looking at their own horses, once their value is exhausted, they will definitely not even blink their eyes and directly swallow the rules of the three people.
Only now, no matter which side it is, the old guy's team is the leader of the camp forces, so even if he is dissatisfied in his heart, he still waits patiently for Zhao Gao's next instructions.
However, Zhao Gao still didn't speak after summoning everyone, and while playing with the completely updated battlefield control map in his hand, he frequently looked up at the outside of the tent.
He's still waiting.
It was another anxious moment, until a female general in a red shirt opened the curtain.
Another historical epic plot character!
Whether it is the arbiter side or the extraordinary wisdom side, this is a pure historical epic, each of them has the ability to break the world, not the kind of Xibei goods that inherit the fortune of the empire!
All of you here are experts, and almost instantly give a definite judgment.
What's more, the one who came was out of everyone's knowledge.
Such a person has either left a great career in history, or has left a great reputation in history for special reasons. No matter what it is, with the cognition of these people here, it is impossible not to recognize it!
Then there is only one possibility left - this is a historical epic that has just advanced in this world!
In the world of many legendary emperors, what a fortune it must be to be promoted to a historical epic without relying on them!
"What is the gentleman looking for me?" The red-clad woman looked respectful, and on her chest, a touch of bright red was incomparably brilliant.
Zhao Gao's heart twitched slightly. In his current eyes, he won't fail to see that this red scarf has become the exclusive equipment of the golden plot, and the main source of its rules is his legendary equipment - free guidance.
In fact, not too long has passed, the Red Lady has already set foot in the historical epic, if you extrapolate from this perspective, Li Yan may have reached the peak of the historical epic.
The power of the newly born rules has progressed so fast that it is beyond Zhao Gao's imagination.
No one expected that there was a force under Zhao Gao that was enough to affect the internal pattern, and what was even more shocking was that not only was the Red Lady not in their cognition, but the composition of the rules of the Red Lady's epic was actually beyond the cognition of the arbiter and extraordinary wisdom!
In the midst of everyone's surprise, Zhao Gao clapped his hands and smiled: "Now that everyone is finally together, now everyone might as well work together to see how to capture Tianjing City at the lowest cost." ”
This was undoubtedly a test, and the best whetstone to test the Quartet forces in this temporary team - unlike the capture of Suzhou, the capture of Tianjing was a sign that the Lao clan could replace the second-rate forces second only to the three empires. At that time, no matter how low-key they want to be, all the forces will re-examine and look at the old clan.
"It's not that hard." Pangea, which was half human, half snake, spat out a letter and chuckled, showing a historical legendary skill.