Chapter 064: War Breaks Out
A breakthrough: from the outside to the inside, there is a reason for everything, and it is easy to follow. Pen, Fun, Pavilion www.biquge.info--Yushan Bamboo Slip Transcript
The Li family is also inseparable from the support of the Luo family, and it is better for the Luo and Li families to join forces to deal with it, and perhaps it is more likely to tide over the difficulties. Although you have a clear conscience, what you think is not the key, but how you do it. I can only hope that the Luo family understands and Luo Weiyu can understand.
In mid-September, Baron Fan Shitong of the Fan family of Chencheng County started an incident in Jiahe County, and Wang Shiguang, the king of Xiangzhou of the Wang family, instructed Wang Shiyi, the king of Chencheng County, to "quell the rebellion". Baron Fan Shitong has a low title and a small official position, so he can't play a role, and Wang Shi'an from Shixing County still brought Wang Ziyan to Li Yunlong.
Shixing County is far away from Xiangzhou, and Wang Shi'an is either short-sighted or instructed by the Zhang family. Out of protection for Wang Shi'an, Li Yunlong only left Wang Ziyan to participate in the war, and Wang Shi'an was arranged to receive grain and grass in the rear. Protecting the Wang family is protecting the Li family, there is no way that the Wang family is the suzerain of the Li family, and the Wang family will not be better if the Li family collapses.
In the golden autumn of October, Li Yunlong, the general of Shaocheng County, responded to the "counterinsurgency" action of Chencheng County, Wang Shiguang, the king of Hunan Province, and responded with a total of 6,000 troops.
The generals of the army were: Zhu Yanqing, the governor of the county, Luo Weiyu, the secretary, Zunming, the county seat of Nanxiong, Wang Ziyan, the lord of Shixing County, Li Zemin, the commander of the Chinese army, Zhang Zunyu, the commander of the left army, and Wang Junjie, the commander of the right army.
In less than two weeks, the Imperial Lion directly drove Baron Fan Shitong's 4,000-strong army out of Chencheng County and withdrew from Xiangzhou.
Things have developed so far, and the country of Jin is basically chaotic, and there are ten states in the country of Jin, one lord, two princes, and seven princes. The Zhang family owned four states: Zhili Prefecture State Advocate Weifeng, Jinzhou Jin Prince Zhang Weijian, Jizhou Ji Prince Zhang Weihong, Luzhou Lu King Zhang Weixiang; the Fan family owned three states: Ganzhou Gan King Fan Shigang, Minzhou Min King Fan Shixun, Zhejiang King Fan Shijian; the other three states were: Xiangzhou Xiangwang Wang Shiguang, Guizhou Guiwang Zeng Zhensheng, Yuzhou Yu King Chen Zhelun.
Clear-eyed people can know at a glance why the Zhang family and the Fan family of the Jin Kingdom are confronting, and they can also fight, it is not normal for the Zhang family and the Fan family not to fight. The Zhang family has an advantage in politics, and the three states owned by the Fan family are very rich and economically dominant, and each has its own advantages and disadvantages, and no one can overwhelm the other.
Wang Shiguang, the king of Xiangzhou in Xiangzhou, did not completely own Xiangzhou, and the Fan family occupied two of the ten counties, so the Wang family chose to rely on the Zhang family. In addition, Zeng Zhensheng, the king of Guizhou, and Chen Zhelun, the king of Yuzhou, adopted the attitude of riding on the wall to survive and develop in the cracks.
This was originally a confrontation between the Zhang family and the Fan family, and the Wang family was forced to come out of helplessness, and the Li family was even more inadequate. But since it is mixed in, it can only be planned in people, and things can be achieved in heaven. Li Yunlong could only be unequivocal, and a week later, he approached Xicheng County, Ganzhou, which was controlled by the Fan family, and joined the army of Wang Shiyi, the king of Chencheng County, to resist the army of Fan Shigang, the king of Gan.
Chencheng County and Xicheng County are both mountainous and hilly, and the terrain is easy to defend and difficult to attack. Originally, it should be advantageous for the defenders, but there is a mountain problem in the mountains, that is, there are many mountain roads in the passes, and the troops must be divided everywhere. The mobile combat army left by Fan Shigang, the king of Gan, was about 10,000 people, 10,000 people from Wang Shiyi's department of Chencheng County, and 6,000 people from Li Yunlong's department, the general of Yangwei.
The Jiangxi army gave up a large number of passes and retreated directly, forming a strategic depth of about 100 li, and the Wang-Li coalition army was unfamiliar with the terrain and did not dare to advance. What's more, Li Yunlong's troops had no combat experience at all, and could only be responsible for maintaining the army's supply lines, and after the battle line was lengthened, the troops were also dispersed, and the entire situation was at a stalemate.
The Wang-Li coalition army had no choice but to adopt a step-by-step strategy, advancing for more than ten miles every day. It took a whole month to encroach on the strategic depth of the 100-mile Jiangxi army.
Li Yunlong garrisoned the strategic place "Kei Valley", which extends in all directions and is a necessary place for grain and grass transportation, using the Taiji Liangyi Five Elements Array to lay down the enchantment to directly control a radius of 50 kilometers, the Jiangxi army is powerless, and retreats nearly 100 miles to completely withdraw from the mountainous area and enter the city to defend. The two armies were locked in a grueling battle for the defense of the city, and both sides could hardly do anything, and the days dragged on until November.
This war was fought from autumn to winter, and now that it was about to reach the depths of winter, the war became more and more difficult to fight. It has become a consensus on both sides that the war must end before the New Year, and the question is how to end it.
Since the beginning of the war, there have been no major battles in the Wang-Li coalition army, all of which have been small-scale frictions, and three or five hundred people will end the battle with a few strokes of swords and sticks. Therefore, there were no casualties, and the injuries were basically accidental injuries while climbing the mountain, and the two people died because they accidentally slipped and fell into the valley during the rain.
The morale of the army is not chaotic, and it still has the ability to continue fighting, but the consumption of grain and grass cannot be delayed, the supply line is long, the road conditions are extremely poor, and the transportation time is long. Fifty percent of the food consumption was consumed, and the war gradually became unfought.
Marching and fighting a war does not mean that you can advance if you advance, nor does it mean that you can retreat. The so-called freedom of advance and retreat is a mythical story, Li Yunlong knows that it is now "consuming", consuming what needs to be consumed, and consuming it if it can't be consumed. Consuming the hearts of the army, consuming patience, consuming energy, consuming food, etc., in a word, every day you come together, you have to cheer up twelve points of spirit, thinking about how to consume the enemy to death.
Li Yunlong was in charge of the grain and grass, and nearly 20,000 people and 10,000 horses had to take care of eating, drinking, and Lasa every day. Grain consumes 20,000 catties a day, horse feed consumes 150,000 catties a day, and the replacement of clothes, armor, bedding and weapons can make you lose your head overnight. The amount of manure supplied to the water every day is as large, and it must be disposed of in a timely manner, and if there is a plague in the case of sanitation, then there is no need to fight this battle.
Li Yunlong came up with two strategies to solve this problem, relay transportation and camp garrison. Relay transportation and camp garrison are two strategies, but in fact they need to be implemented together.
First of all, camps were set up at key passes, daily consumption of grain and grass was counted, public toilets and canteens were set up, and water sources were drawn in a unified manner. A central camp is set up every 25 kilometers, where grain and grass materials are stored in a centralized manner, and the surrounding camps come to the central camp to collect the next day's grain and grass materials during daily patrols.
Transport teams are then set up in each central camp to deliver food to the next central camp every day under the protection of the patrol team, and are only responsible for transporting a distance of 25 kilometers, and return to the central camp on the same day, and the central camp in the mountainous area can be set up at 15 kilometers.
In this way, the road loss of grain and grass is reduced by two layers, the personnel are relatively dispersed, the sanitary conditions are greatly improved, and the transportation team does not have to be so tired.
Finally, Li Yunlong encouraged all barracks to eat nearby: they could buy military rations from the markets in neighboring towns; horses could be grazed in the nearby mountainous woodlands; and hunting competitions could be held in the mountainous areas, which would not only train the troops to enrich their cultural life, but also solve some of the meat problems.
With these measures, the Wang-Li coalition gradually gained the upper hand, constantly sending small forces to harass around the city. Finally, cut off the water source outside the city, and basically control the grain and grass transportation channels outside the city.
The Ganzhou army retreated in the city and was passively defensive, and life was hard. The outside world was cut off, and the morale of the army was unstable. The Fan family was too arrogant in the Jin Kingdom, and the Zhang family had to go all out to suppress the Fan family and support the Wang family.
The first snow of winter came later than usual, but it finally came. Li Yunlong's transport team has one more task, transporting heating materials. The temperature in December is getting colder and colder, the forage and wild animals in the wild have become extinct, and the consumption of food is much greater.
But the people in the city were even more miserable, because they only lacked water. Now the snow has not only failed to alleviate the city's water supply, but heating has become a new problem. Snow can turn water, but you can't eat snow directly in winter to quench your thirst.
There were only a few men patrolling the city, and they no longer had to worry about anyone coming to attack the city. No one likes to come out in this kind of weather, and it will be a victory for both parties to survive this winter.
There were also foraging birds in the wilderness, and the activities of the Wang-Li coalition army were exposed by startled birds a few miles away, and night raids, sneak attacks, and harassment became jokes.
The long-awaited supplies of the city also did not come, and the white snow exposed all moving objects, and the heavy baggage team could not move in the snow.
Surviving this long winter has become the ideal of many people.
In relatively cold temperatures, the flame of the stove always seems so faint. Li Yunlong was bored fiddling with the fire, he knew that the winter in the wild was so difficult, and so many things had to be burned every day, and those horse manure should be collected and dried for heating, and now those things were simply "treasures".
The main battlefield of Wang Shiguang, the king of Xiang, didn't know how to fight, since the snow was basically broken, and the carrier pigeons that delivered the news were as difficult as in winter.
Even if the carrier pigeon came, Li Yunlong was a little interested in feeding the carrier pigeon, and he didn't want to read the instructions of Wang Shiyi, the king of Chencheng County. It's the same whether you look at it or not, either it's urging food or coal, or both.
Wang Li Lianjun has been arguing about this matter, and as a general of the empire, he does not need to buy the account of the county king. General Yang Wei was directly subordinate to the central army of the empire and was not subordinate to the locality, and the county king could only meddle in local military and government affairs, so arguing became the main content of Li Yunlong and Wang Shiyi's daily life.
Winter is coming, will spring be far away? The warm spring has not yet arrived, and Wang Shiyi, the king of Chencheng County, has come in person. Wang Shiyi's face was discouraged, and he retreated.
Only Wang Shiyi and Li Yunlong remained in the entire camp: "We were defeated." ”
"What's going on?" this was a result that Li Yunlong didn't expect at all.
took the secret letter handed over by Wang Shiyi: Wang Shiguang, the king of Xiang, was assassinated in the military camp, the Chinese army was surrounded, and the army was defeated and retreated!
"Maybe it's fake news. Li Yunlong couldn't believe what he saw, "Have you confirmed it yourself?"
Wang Shiyi handed over a letter: "I don't believe the content of the secret letter, this is my private letter after confirmation, and it is estimated that the incident happened five days ago." ”
{May my words bring you happiness}